83720 - event handlers not working for HTML Element : OPTGROUP, OPTION

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Madhur Bhatia]

1. open the attachements provided below.
2. click or key press through all the tests.

Actual Result:
You will notice that the following events are not being triggered : 
ONKEYPRESS, ONKEYDOWN, ONKEYUP, ONFOCUS, ONBLUR, ONCHANGE

Expected result:
According to http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-OPTGROUP ,
these events should be triggered

Reproducible: Always

Operating System: Win2000

Comment 1

[Madhur Bhatia]

Attachment: Test case for HTML Events :: Elements - OPTGROUP & OPTION

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Bugs targeted at mozilla1.0 without the mozilla1.0 keyword moved to mozilla1.0.1 
(you can query for this string to delete spam or retrieve the list of bugs I've 
moved)

Comment 3

[Rakesh Mishra]

nominating for nsbeta1

Comment 4

[florian.steinel]

I got a crash when selecting a optgroup element in
http://www.tantek.com/HTML4/OPTGROUP.html ( TB9205443W9 ).
Is this related to Bug 63006?

Comment 5

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

The fact that the handler can be defined on optgroup and option does not mean
that the event has to be fired at it.  Optgroups and options do not really
receive focus (the select does).  This is how select menus work.  Therefore the
optgroup and option will not receive onfocus and onblur.  Further, only elements
which receive focus get key events.  Therefore they do not receive onkeypress,
onkeydown, and onkeyup.

Finally, firing focus, blur or change would seriously mess up <select> because
these events bubble.  If you fired focus, blur or change on the <option>,
onchange, onfocus and onblur would fire on the <select> itself, which would
break the web.  Breaking the web is bad, and the standards don't say we have to
fire these events.