62185 - menulists not selecting first item by default

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 118038

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

In the linux filepicker, the menulist for the filter is blank when the dialog
initially appears.  What should be happening is that the first item is selected.
 This seems to have broken with the XBL menulist checkins, although I'm not sure
which one in particular.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

->bryner, per hyatt - is filter empty initially?

Comment 2

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Yes, the filter list is initially empty.  Items are added to the menulist using
appendChild.  Shouldn't the menulist select the first child as soon as it's added?

Comment 3

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Attachment: patch to fix the filepicker case

Comment 4

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

r=[e-mail]

Comment 5

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Checked in a fix for the filepicker.

Per hyatt, reassigning to him to cover the generic case of selecting the first
item automatically when the menulist is initially empty.  Also un-nominate for
beta1, since we have an easy workaround.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

The menulist actually does do this on binding attached, but I guess we'll need 
to add additional logic to handle the case when it starts empty and items are 
programmatically appended.

Comment 7

[David Hyatt]

Later. :)  I don't want to put any mutation event listeners in yet if we can
help it. :)

Comment 8

[Charles Manske]

I think this is fixed by Neil's fix to bug 118038. Smells like a dup to me.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118038 ***