88605 - Using the scroll wheel on pages with forms, the wheel only works when hovering the cursor over the scrollbar.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33732

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

Description

[Kevin Plattner]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062815

Using the scroll wheel on pages with forms, the wheel only works when hovering
the cursor over the scrollbar.  It sometimes scrolls parts of the form.  I think
that it should scroll the entire page when the cursor is hovering over the page,
and scroll parts of the form when the cursor is over the form.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load a page with a form
2.Try to scroll using the scroll wheel.  Try it with the cursor in different
places, like over the scrollbar, and over parts of the form and parts outside
the form.


Actual Results:  It scrolls things that I don't think should scroll.  You have
to try it.  http://mozilla.org/quality/help/bugzilla-helper.html is a good
example.  Try scrolling while you have the Product list in the view.

Expected Results:  It should scroll the entire page when the cursor is hovering
over the page, and scroll parts of the form when the cursor is over the form.

Comment 1

[Markus Gerstel]

It scrolls the entire page if the focus is not on a multiline text field.
It scrolls only the multiline text field if the focus is on a multiline text field.
The mouse's position doesn't seem to have anything to do with that.
(Build 2001062815 - W2K)

I think the behavior is quite OK, maybe if the text field has focus but has no
scrollbar - then mozilla should scroll the entire page.

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33732 ***