439998 - onfocus DOM events are not inherited (bubble up)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark James]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0

onfocus DOM events are not inherited (bubble up).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load http://mrj.bpa.nu/f.html
2.Click in top box
3.Click in bottom box
Actual Results:  
An 'x' is only added to the status bar when the bottom box is given focus.

Expected Results:  
An 'x' should be added to the status bar when either box is given focus.

HTML to reproduce:

<div onfocus="window.status += 'x'"> 
<input type="text"/>
</div>

<input type="text" onfocus="window.status += 'x'"/>

Comment 1

[Aiko]

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/events.html#event-focus specifies that this event must not bubble.

Comment 2

[Mark James]

OK, thanks Aiko.

Some code that worked in FF2 does not work in FF3, so it's FF2 that's out of spec.

Comment 3

[Aiko]

Did you really test this with text inputs? If not you were probably seeing bug 238987 in Fx 2.

Comment 4

[Mark James]

It looks like it was indeed #238987, because I only get the bubble on a select under FF 2.0.0.14.

I failed to find this bug in my searches prior to submission, and failed to narrow down the unexpected behaviour.

Thanks for setting me straight.