819616 - Pressing Enter on a list item or an auto-fill entry in a form sometimes submits the form.

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Toolkit :: Autocomplete, defect)

Description

[algotechie]

What I did: I intended to create a PayPal account on their registration page. When I started typing in the fields like "Email address", "First name", etc, a list of auto-complete entries (previously used emails, names, etc) appeared. I hit the down arrow to select one of them and pressed Enter to fill up the field with that entry. Alternatively, I also selected a country in the same manner from the drop-down list of countries.

What happened: The incomplete form got submitted (and came back with "missing required field" error).

What should have happened: The fields should have been populated with the selected entries and the form should not have been submitted. Because the form contained fields (other than the submit button) in which the Enter button could be used and submit button was not in focus when Enter was pressed.

Additional notes:
1. It only happens on certain Webpages and not all. The coding of the pages themselves might be to blame. In any case, it would perhaps be a good idea to provide an option if the user wishes to submit the form on pressing Enter on an auto-complete entry or a list item.
2. I found two similar bugs (172177 and 175597), but not sure if they have something in common.

Comment 1

[Shad Sterling]

Possible duplicates: bug 692581, bug 175597, bug 286933, bug 364733, bug 819616

Reportedly observed on these pages:
https://secure.feedingamerica.org/site/Donation2?df_id=1560&1560.donation=form1
https://www.ups.com/one-to-one/login
https://www.tumblr.com/login
https://course.bighistoryproject.com/en/Sign-In
https://idmsa.apple.com/IDMSWebAuth/authenticate.html
https://artemis.siol.net/servicePages/validate-login.sp
http://search.msn.com/
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Home/tabid/510/ctl/Login/Default.aspx
http://paypal.com/

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.