705034 - keypress triggers on wrong input/textarea if another is focused during keydown

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Han Seoul-Oh]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2

Steps to reproduce:

Go to http://jsfiddle.net/7j3xd/1/
Focus on the top textarea or input
Hit the down arrow key


Actual results:

The event handlers report that keydown was triggered on the top textarea or input element, and that keypress was triggered on the bottom textarea or input element.


Expected results:

The event handlers report that keydown and keypress were triggered on the top textarea or input element, since that's where you hit the down arrow key.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The issue here is that keydown and keyup happen on different elements, right?  What does the spec say about where keypress happens in this situation?

Comment 2

[Han Seoul-Oh]

My mistake. I apologize for wasting your time. I assumed it was a bug in Gecko because it doesn't happen in WebKit--for the down arrow key, but that's actually because WebKit doesn't trigger keypress for arrow keys. In fact, it's just an unintuitive design decision by the spec.