430310 - Click event fires for the document object when a contextmenu is displayed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184051

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Todd Kloots]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18
Build Identifier: Firefox 2.0.0.14 (Windows), Firefox 3 B5 (Mac and Windows)

In Firefox 2 for Windows and Firefox 3 (Mac and Windows) when the display of the browser context menu is triggered, the document object ends up firing a "click" event, even though the DOM element that was the target of the "contextmenu" event didn't fire a "click" event.  For the other browsers that support the "contextmenu" event (IE and Safari) as well as Firefox 2 for Mac OS X, the "click" event doesn't fire for the document object.  

Here is an example illustrating the bug:
http://yuiblog.com/sandbox/yui/v251/examples/menu/context-menu-bug-report.html

Considering the behavior of the other browsers that support the "contextmenu" event, this seems like a bug in Firefox that should be fixed.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a click event handler to the document and to an element that is a child of the document object
2. Trigger the display if the browser's context menu on the element that is a child of the document object
3. Notice the click event handler is not called for the element that is a child of the document object, but is called for the document object itself
Actual Results:  
The click event handler is called for the document object.

Expected Results:  
The click event handler should not be called for the document object as the "click" event never fired for the element that was the original target of the "contextmenu" event.