Closed Bug 525885 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

tab order skips pull-down menus in forms

Categories

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Keyboard Navigation
Version:
3.5 Branch
Platform:
x86
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 187508

People

(Reporter: ray, Unassigned)

Details

Say that I have a web page with this form on it:

<html><head><title>form</title></head>
<body>
<form action="foo.cgi">
field: <input type="text" name="f1" /><br/>
field: <input type="text" name="f2" /><br/>
list: <select name="f3">
  <option value="1">1</option>
  <option value="2">2</option>
  <option value="3">3</option>
</select><br/>
field: <input type="text" name="f4" />
</form>
</body></html>

When I first load the page and hit the <tab> key, the first field is selected and the input cursor is in that field.

Hit <tab> again and I get to the second field.

Hit <tab> again and I get to the third field.

Why does it skip the pull-down list? In order to get to the pull-down list, I seem to have to move my mouse and click on it. This seems wrong. Is this expected? Why?

I think I should be able to fill out this form thus:

load -> tab -> aString -> tab -> aString -> tab -> downArrow -> tab -> aString

It seems obvious that keyboard navigation can work here, yet it does not.
You need to set Full Keyboard Access in the OS X system configurations.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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