52014 - Can't tab to compose msg body anymore

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[selmer (gone)]

9/9 08 m18 commercial (and recent preceding builds)

In message compose, I can't use tab to get from the subject to the body anymore.
 The input cursor flashes in the body and then goes away leaving me unable to type.

I _can_ get there by using the enter key in the subject line.  Perhaps tab got
broken when enter got fixed?

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

tab key problems have been reported the past days:
bug 51642 "Can't tab between form controls over a combobox"
bug 51863 "Tabbing through text forms stopps halfway"

so this might be a more general tab-bug.

As for mailnews composition there's bug 49232 "Should only be one tab from
addressing field to subject line"
49232 assigned to [e-mail] with status whiteboard [nsbeta3+][PDTP2]

This might be a dup?

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Reassign to varada

Comment 3

[selmer (gone)]

No, this isn't a dup of Varada's tab bug.  This bug isn't about the number of
tabs required to get there (unless you count infinity :-)  This bug is about
that fact that tab used to work between the subject and the body but no longer
does work.

Comment 4

[varada]

Accepting Bug.
This is an extension of the 49232(only one tab from addressing ->subject->body).
We just have to make sure that when the caret reaches the body it better stays 
there :-).

Comment 5

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

seems to work for me now...

Comment 6

[selmer (gone)]

This also works for me now.  The new problem is the invisible input caret, but
that's not this bug.  Closing WFM.

Comment 7

[laurel]

Worksforme in both New Msg and reply window, plain text and html using
2000-09-28-10 mn6 branch commercial build linux rh6.0
2000-09-28-08 mn6 branch commercial build NT 4.0
2000-09-27-11 mn6 branch commercial build mac OS 9.0