423512 - contenteditable divs don't fire events

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Robbie Paplin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Firefox/3.0b4

The page listed above has a DIV with a contenteditable = true attribute. The DIV contains several spans with a contenteditable = false attribute. Event handlers are registered on the DIV via markup like so...

<DIV id="divTo" onkeypress="onevent(this);" oncut="onevent(this);" onpaste="onevent(this);"  onkeydown="onevent(this);"  onclick="onevent(this)" oncopy="onevent(this);" onkeyup="onevent(this);" onresize="onevent(this)" contentEditable="true"> 

The example page has code, so when the event fires, a checkbox should get checked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set the caret to an editable area in the To... address field in the attached web page to fire the onclick event
2. Press keys on the keyboard to fire the onkeypress, onkeydown, and onkeyup events
3. Start selecting text and right clicking the clipboard options (or press Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) to fire the oncut, oncopy, and onpaste events
Actual Results:  
On Firefox 3.0 none of the registered events fire

Expected Results:  
All of the events fire

Comment 1

[Robbie Paplin]

Attachment: Test document to verify contenteditable events fire

Comment 2

[Robbie Paplin]

If you open the Error Console you'll see errors ("event is not defined"). In Firefox you need to pass the event object to your 'onevent' function. See http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:event#DOM_event_handler_List
for examples. 

Given this, it's an error in the test (an invalid testcase), and not Firefox.