527010 - input field immediately after a hidden field cannot keep focus

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philip Schweiger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5

If a input field with the type "hidden" immediately precedes an input field with the type "text", the "text" field will not retain focus.

The HTML markup of this scenario is:
<p>
 <label>
   Name<br />
   <input type="hidden" name="name" id="name" />
   <input type="text" name="text" />
 </label>
</p>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a page with the HTML markup in the details
2. Visit the page with the browser and try to click on the input field
Actual Results:  
As soon as the mouse button is released, the input field loses focus.  However, if you hold the mouse button while typing, the field retains focus

Expected Results:  
The input field should retain focus

This only seems to happen when the hidden field directly precedes the text field in the HTML markup.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I can indeed reproduce this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091030 Shiretoko/3.5.5pre
but it is fixed in the latest 3.6 build.
So the next milestone release won't have this bug anymore.
You can try it out: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-1.9.2/
Resolving WFM.