426074 - Right-click on HTML buttons should not display depressed state

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 313459

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

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008033007 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008033007 Minefield/3.0pre

Right clicking on a Web page buttons should be ignored; since that happens when you right click any "real" button, at least, in Windows (like Close in title bar). Often, buttons have a "What is this?" menu, but that does not relate to a Web page.

Now, a pressed state is shown.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Can you please clarify what you mean by "web page buttons"?  Are you referring to <a href="http://www.blah.com"><img src="foo.gif"></a>?  Why do you think web content should be treated as platform-native content?

Comment 2

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you please clarify what you mean by "web page buttons"?  Are you referring
> to <a href="http://www.blah.com"><img src="foo.gif"></a>?  Why do you think web
> content should be treated as platform-native content?
> 

<input type="button">, <button>.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Where on here do you see context-menu items for Submit or radio buttons, on right-click?

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp

Comment 4

[Ian Spence]

He doesn't. His point was that since there are no context menus, there is no reason to respond to rightclick.

That being said, I at least agree that the current action is quite odd.  If I right click a button, it becomes focused.  This is fine.  But if I then mouseover the focused button, it paints pressed even though it is not being pressed

Comment 5

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #4)
> He doesn't. His point was that since there are no context menus, there is no
> reason to respond to rightclick.

Right.

Comment 7

[Morgan 'ARR!' Allen]

Attachment: Add user pref for right click on all form elements

I still think the behavior is really annoying from a web developer view. I use the context menu -> inspect element from firebug all day, especially when a form is miss behaving. This small patch adds a user pref (contextmenu.allforms.enabled) to turn this behavior off (back on). 

I would like to also not, I do not believe just because Windows does something, it should be a valid basis for firefox development. my 2cents.

Comment 8

[Timwi]

I think the title of this bug confuses many people, especially within the discussions about context menus (in other bugs, such as bug 433168 for example). I think the title of this bug should be changed to something like:

Right-click on HTML buttons should not display depressed state

Comment 9

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> I think the title of this bug confuses many people, especially within the
> discussions about context menus (in other bugs, such as bug 433168 for
> example). I think the title of this bug should be changed to something like:
> 
> Right-click on HTML buttons should not display depressed state

Perfect suggestion, thanks!

Comment 10

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Confirming. With the context menu gone, right click should be a no-op, IMHO. Regardless, the active state shouldn't persist after the mouseup.