418453 - Column headers do not sort, but infinate loop on OnClick

Status: VERIFIED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Ulliott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: Firefox 3 beta 3

In a private web application, whenever Firefox 3 beta 3 is used and I click to sort a column in a table, I get a wait cursor and the column doesnt sort. Also the arrows to the right of the text are not visible on pageload. However using other browsers this works fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open private web application
2.View table data
3.Click a column header to sort
Actual Results:  
Wait cursor appears even though only 100 or so rows. Sort never actually occurs.

Expected Results:  
Using other browsers the table is sorted on the new column in less than a second. With FF 3 beta 3, it never seems to return. Seems busy and wait cursor active.

Example code of page here:

<TABLE id="browser" width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3>

  <TR id="headerRow0">
    <TD class="TABLEHEADERNOSORT">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD class="TABLEHEADERNOSORT">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD class="TABLEHEADER" onclick="tableSort(this,0,'')">Name&nbsp;<IMG id="arrow0" STYLE="visibility:hidden;" border=0 src="../images/buttons/up.gif">
    </TD>
    <TD class="TABLEHEADER" onclick="tableSort(this,1,'')">Project&nbsp;<IMG id="arrow1" STYLE="visibility:hidden;" border=0 src="../images/buttons/up.gif">
    </TD>
    <TD class="TABLEHEADER" onclick="tableSort(this,2,'')">Assignment&nbsp;<IMG id="arrow2" STYLE="visibility:hidden;" border=0 src="../images/buttons/up.gif">
    </TD>
    <TD class="TABLEHEADERNOSORT">Action
    </TD>
    <TD class="TABLEHEADER" id="sortMeFirst" onclick="tableSort(this,4,'date')">Due Date (GMT)&nbsp;<IMG id="arrow4" border=0 src="../images/buttons/up.gif">
    </TD>
    <TD class="TABLEHEADERNOSORT">Comments
    </TD>
  </TR>
  
etc...

Comment 1

[Gérard Talbot]

> In a private web application, (...)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.Open private web application

Without an URL, how is it or would it be possible to examine the code of a whole webpage, then determine/see a bug in Firefox and then fix it in Firefox? Realistically speaking, how would that be possible? How do would believe that doing all this would be possible without examining the whole webpage code (notwithstanding HTTP headers and linked external files like js files, stylesheet files)?

For whatever it's worth, I visited
http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/
and
http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/sortabletable/demo.html
and tried both webpages with Seamonkey 2.0a1pre rv:1.9b4pre build 2008021602 under XP Pro SP2 and got both demos working without a problem, without a CSS parsing error, without a javascript error.

> using other browsers
Which other browsers? which versions?