816437 - spacebar triggers click event on wrong element

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect, P5)

Description

[Frank Millman]

Attachment: A self-contained html file showing the problem. Launch it and press <space>. The dialog box appears, and the click event is generated immediately.

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.2; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Steps to reproduce:

Using javascript, I have an input element.
If 'spacebar' is pressed, under some circumstances, a custom dialog box with an 'Ok' button is created with setTimeout(..., 0).
On pressing 'Ok', the dialog is dismissed.


Actual results:

The dialog box appears and then immediately disappears.

It seems that the keyup event from the spacebar is caught by the 'Ok' button, which generates a 'click' event, which closes the dialog box.


Expected results:

The dialog box should stay open until the user dismisses it with a mouseclick, <enter>, or <space>.

This is what happens with all other browsers (IE8, Chrome, Opera, Safari).

Comment 1

[Loic]

I tried with FF17 and IE9 on Win 7, same result. The spacebar opens the dialog box that stays open and each event from the spacebar generates a click event.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

On linux pressing spacebar opens the dialog, and clicking the button or pressing it doesn't dismiss
it. Same behavior on Chrome and Firefox (Nightly) and Opera.

Comment 3

[Frank Millman]

The attached html file is a stripped down example intended to demonstrate the problem in the simplest way possible.

Clicking the button does *not* dismiss the dialog, it simply displays the word 'CLICK'.

You will see that when you press SPACE on the first window, the second window appears *and* the word CLICK appears, even though the button has not been clicked.

I have now tested this on linux (Fedora 14, FF17) and it shows the same problem.

Apologies for any confusion.

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Ah, now I understand.

Comment 5

[donatas.petr]

Reproduced on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0