409000 - Implement setActive() on elements

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[u81239]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; nl; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

Hi,

Firefox 3 implements the activeElement property, however the setActive() method is not available on DOM elements. In Internet Explorer, activeElement can be manipulated with focus() and setActive(), with slightly different semantics[1]. It would probably be good for Firefox to also implement the setActive() method, for completeness’ sake.

[1] http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533065.aspx

Martijn Wargers wrote on this subject:
> I think you should file a bug on this, for getting support for the
> setActive() method.
> From what I can read from the documentation and from testing, it
> focuses the element, but doesn't scroll the element into view (which
> is different from what .focus() does).
> Also, you can change the focused element inside a blurred window,
> without actually bringing that blurred window into front, so this
> really seems like a useful function to me.
> Please file a bug and CC me.

~Grauw

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[u81239]

The documentation for the setActive() method is here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409000

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Example and explanation from msdn:
http://samples.msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/dhtml/refs/setActive.htm
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536738(VS.85).aspx

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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