54887 - [RFE]focus put by default on a form field instead page

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Cyril Elkaim]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000928
BuildID:    2000092808

This is not a real bug but I think it should be better that the
focus goes on the main page of an url instead going directly to
the first visible editable field of that page. One must click on the page
before being able to scroll it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
go on an url with editable fields, this very one is a good sample :-)				

Actual Results:  focus put on the first editable field of the page	

Expected Results:  focus should be on the page itself

Comment 1

[Eugene Savitsky]

For me the focus gets to the page, not editable field.

WFM win98SE 2000100120-M18

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate.  I will try to find the original.

Comment 3

[Luis Villa]

I've looked pretty hard for this and still haven't found the dup that asa
mentioned (though I have seen some similar bugs. Noting as RFE and confirming.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

if this is confirmed then it belongs in event handling and not browser general.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

See bug 55416 for a raft of other focus issues (I don't think this bug is a dup 
of any of those either), and bug 31809 (where I specced focus behavior). This bug 
should probably go to [e-mail] too.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

[e-mail], what pages does this happen on?  Some pages, such as 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and http://www.google.com/, use JavaScript to put 
focus in a search field to make their sites easier to use.

Comment 7

[joki (gone)]

I don't believe that we have any features that automatically set focus to a 
page's first edit field.  For lack of a test url I'm going to assume that the 
page the user visited used JS to set the focus and mark this INVALID.

Comment 8

[Loco]

VERIFIED.  Seems like something that could easily be solved by some JS (per 
comments).  I think it could cause more problems than it would solve (i.e 
scrolling and focus having to be on main page, etc.).

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement.  They have the same meaning.