451435 - Drop-down menus never gain focus when tabbing through a form

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 437296

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[Jared Lambert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1

When tabbing through a form (like for purchasing items online), drop-down menus never gain focus and are completely skipped.  Examples include drop-downs for state, country, etc.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to a page that has drop down menus
2. Press Tab key to go through the form
3.
Actual Results:  
Drop down menus never gain cursor focus

Expected Results:  
The Drop-down menu should gain focus during the tab order.  Note:  Safari has this capability.

Comment 1

[Marco Zehe (:MarcoZ)]

This is a Mac keyboard navigation setting. The tab key can be made to only focus certain elements, all focusable elements, or even none at all. You might want to check your system settings for this.

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

(In reply to comment #1)      

Yes.  

Open the Keyboard & Mouse pref panel, click on the Keyboard Shortcuts
tab, and (at the bottom of the dialog) change "Full keyboard access"
from "Text boxes and lists only" (the default) to "All controls".  If
necessary, restart Firefox.

Now, as you tab through this bug's page, you'll find that its
drop-down menus (aka comboboxes, e.g. "Status") will get the keyboard
focus.