Closed Bug 455268 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

cntrl-click opens new tab, but also follows link in original tab.

Categories

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 151142

People

(Reporter: philip, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 This may be an issue with the website software (but I don't see how...). Only on the website listed above: Cntrl-click in a link and the link is opened in a new tab (correct). BUT the link is followed and the same content displayed in the original tab (incorrct). Using the middle mouse button rather than cntrl-click works correctly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to http://www.fortmoe.com/forum/index.php 2.Cntr-click on "Fort Moe Arms Forum" 3.Original tab also displays content of following the link. Expected Results: Original tab unchanged, new tab opened displaying content of having followed the link.
<td class="row1" height="50" width="100%" onclick="window.location.href='viewforum.php?f=15'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor=""" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor="808080"" style=""> <span class="forumlink"> <a class="forumlink" href="viewforum.php?f=15">Fort Moe Arms Forum</a> <br/> </span> CTRL+click opens the link in a new tab and then the event bubbles to <td> which acts on it in its 'onclick' handler, right? FWIW, Opera and Safari have the same behaviour.
Yikes. The site should use display:block for the link instead of using onclick to fake some (but not many) of the behaviors of a link in the part of the table cell not occupied by the forum name text. A fix for bug 151142 would take care of this, while a fix for bug 55696 / bug 251137 alone might kinda make it worse.
Blocks: 151142
No longer blocks: 151142
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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