827991 - jQuery-ui modal dialogs broken in Firefox 18

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[chessweb]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11

Steps to reproduce:

I use a jQuery-ui modal dialog (the version is 1.8.18). The dialog contains various input controls (textboxes, checkboxes and radio buttons). 


Actual results:

The input controls don't work anymore in Firefox 18, i.e. texts cannot be entered into the textboxes, checkboxes can not be checked/unchecked, radio buttons cannot be clicked.


Expected results:

In Firefox 17 everything worked as one expects from HTML input elements.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you please provide a public testcase ?

Comment 2

[chessweb]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #1)
> Can you please provide a public testcase ?

Of course: Go to http://kreidestaub.de/chessnode.html, click on Login and try to enter a username or change Server/Port.

Try it with Firefox 17, 18, IE >= 9, and Chrome.

PS: I just noticed that Firefox 11 isn't working either.

Comment 3

[chessweb]

I just revisited my site with Firefox 17.0.1 and noticed that it doesn't work either. Sorry about the misleading bug report and previous comment in that respect.

Anyway, all versions of Firefox seem to have this problem with modal jQuery-ui dialogs because Internet Explorer >= 9.0 and Google Chrome are definitely OK.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

confirming with Firefox trunk on Windows 7

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

There's a known issue with jquery-ui where it does broken browser-sniffing and sends us bogus content that prevents all sorts of events, which has the side-effect of not being able to type in textfields like this because it prevents them from being focused.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to be particular interested in fixing it.  I can only recommend not using jquery-ui.  :(

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

maybe bug 805516 ?

Comment 7

[chessweb]

@Boris Zbarsky: If that is really true, I can only recommend not using Firefox.

Comment 8

[Felix Schwarz]

(In reply to chessweb from comment #2)
> Of course: Go to http://kreidestaub.de/chessnode.html, click on Login and
> try to enter a username or change Server/Port.
> 
> Try it with Firefox 17, 18, IE >= 9, and Chrome.

Just in case it is interesting to anyone: That works for me just fine on Firefox 17 (Mozilla build)+18 (Fedora RPM) on Linux x86_64.

Comment 9

[chessweb]

(In reply to Felix Schwarz from comment #8)
> (In reply to chessweb from comment #2)
> > Of course: Go to http://kreidestaub.de/chessnode.html, click on Login and
> > try to enter a username or change Server/Port.
> > 
> > Try it with Firefox 17, 18, IE >= 9, and Chrome.
> 
> Just in case it is interesting to anyone: That works for me just fine on
> Firefox 17 (Mozilla build)+18 (Fedora RPM) on Linux x86_64.

No, it isn't working with Firefox on Linux either. I just tried it with Debian 32-bit. It's just that in order to allow Firefox users to log in at all, I recently changed the dialogs from modal to modeless, but only when the app is used with Firefox.

Comment 10

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Demo site is down, and https://jqueryui.com/dialog/#modal-form WFM is current releases. Let's go ahead and close under the assumption that something has been fixed somewhere.

But, if there's still a bug with current versions of jQuery UI and Firefox, please comment and we can re-open.