714443 - unable to inspect disabled form elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257623

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P2)

Description

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

Attachment: testcase

When launching the inspector and trying to focus it on a disabled element it become impossible, and the inspector won't detect the mouse click on these elements. 

Steps to reproduce:
Launch the inspector on a page with disabled elements, than try to focus the inspector on these fields. I'm attaching a simple test page to this bug.

Comment 1

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

By the way, Firebug doesn't seems to have this limitation.

Comment 2

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

When pressing "Enter", we can inspect the element. Apparently, we don't catch the "click" event.

Comment 3

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

A work around would be to select a node once the highlighter is clicked (the veil), not the content. That would make this work, and also make the flash elements and pointer-events:none elements selectionnable.

Comment 4

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

On the attached testcase, the textarea resizer behaves weird when inspecting. Do you think it has something that could be fixed, by for example disabling the resizer?

Comment 5

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

(In reply to Tomer Cohen :tomer from comment #4)
> On the attached testcase, the textarea resizer behaves weird when
> inspecting.

What do you mean?

Comment 6

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Bug triage. Filter on PEGASUS.

Comment 7

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Paul Rouget [:paul] from comment #3)
> A work around would be to select a node once the highlighter is clicked (the
> veil), not the content. That would make this work, and also make the flash
> elements and pointer-events:none elements selectionnable.

Now that bug 703031 is fixed, is this already working? Or does this bug need additional work?

See also bug 257623 and bug 141432.

Comment 8

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

(In reply to Gijs Kruitbosch from comment #7)
> (In reply to Paul Rouget [:paul] from comment #3)
> > A work around would be to select a node once the highlighter is clicked (the
> > veil), not the content. That would make this work, and also make the flash
> > elements and pointer-events:none elements selectionnable.
> 
> Now that bug 703031 is fixed, is this already working? Or does this bug need
> additional work?

Additional work is needed.

> See also bug 257623 and bug 141432.

Thank you.

Comment 9

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

IMO, this seems like a dup of 257623 - though bug 724546 seems relevant too.