682763 - Giving focus to a scrollable element fails to enable SPACE key scrolling

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Leif Halvard Silli]

Attachment: Demo page (the demo immitates a frameset page)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Build ID: 20110811165603

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load test page and bring focus to the following element -
   EITHER by using an onLoad event 
   OR by simply the tabulator to giv focus to it
   OR by pressing Ctrl-K to focus on it via the accesskey:
    <div tabindex="0" accesskey="k" style="overflow:scroll;"></div>
2. Press the Down arrow to see if you are able to scroll with the arrow keys.
3. Press SPACE key/SPACEbar to to see if you are able to scroll that way



Actual results:

* Down arrow  lets you scroll.
* SPACE key *doesn't* let you scroll.


Expected results:

Not only the Down arrow but also the SPACE key should have caused scrolling to happen

For contrast, if instead of giving focus to this div element had given focus to a <frame> or a <iframe>, then SPACE key scrolling would have worked as expected. Thus, this bug prevents Firefox from imitating frames. Webkit, Chrome and IE do not have this bug.

Comment 1

[Leif Halvard Silli]

Attachment: Frame page - to show that SPACE key scrolling after focus works fine here

Comment 2

[Leif Halvard Silli]

Attachment: iFrame demo - to show that SPACE key scrolling after focus works fine for iframes

Comment 3

[Leif Halvard Silli]

By the way: to click inside the <div> in order to make SPACEBAR scrollling work, has zero effect.

Comment 4

[Leif Halvard Silli]

Attachment: Comparision: "div frame" and iframe in same document.

Comment 5

[Ioana (away)]

Verified on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110921 Firefox/9.0a1 (20110921030906)

Giving focus to a scrollable element failed to enable SPACE key scrolling even when the element was a frame/iframe. This issue seems to be intermittent though. After multiple tries, the SPACE scrolling went fine once with a frame, once with a div and twice with an iframe.

To verify this issue I only used the attachments from this bug.

Comment 6

[Flore Allemandou [:flore]]

Going through old bugs... I tested attachment 556456 [details] and managed to scroll with down arrows and space.
Seems like this bug was resolved in recent versions (48.0a1 (2016-03-23)).

If you still experience that bug, feel free to reopen it and provide more details