864096 - middle-click and right-click on element-node don't fire event handler

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Seeker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130409194949

Steps to reproduce:

1. clicked an element node.

2. Did middle-click and right-click on element node


Actual results:

1. When left-click on any element node, click event fires.

2. However, when middle-click or right click, it triggers the event handler which is attached on #document only.


Expected results:

2. Event handler which is attached on element node should fire.

Comment 1

[Seeker]

// Explanation

document.onclick = docHandler;
document.body.onclick = bodyHandler;
divElement.onclick = divHandler;

1. clicking 'divElement' fires all event Handlers. (divHandler, bodyHandler, docHandler)

2. but middle-clicking and right-clicking fires docHandler only.

3. On the contrary

document.onmousedown = docHandler;
document.body.onmousedown = bodyHandler;
divElement.onmousedown = divHandler;

In this case, all mousedown events work properly.

Comment 2

[Albert Scheiner [:alberts]]

Confirmed. I just stumbled upon the issue found this stackoverflow where users also report in the comments that it (only) doesn't work in Firefox: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1795734/triggering-onclick-event-using-middle-click

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, 4 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Comment 4

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Closing as middle/secondary clicks are not supposed to fire click events. auxclick is for them now.