886268 - Focus is pushed to link on click

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[jase.williams]

Attachment: Screen Shot 2013-06-24 at 12.17.39.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1541.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Visited: http://jsfiddle.net/uEDpg/1/
Clicked on the 'click me' button.




Actual results:

The document.activeElement is 'A'.



Expected results:

In other browsers such as Chrome, focus remains on the Body.
Checking the specification, there is no mention of focus being pushed to the link on click. Have FF made this assumption?
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/editing.html#focus

This is causing some browser inconsistency.

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: Standalone testcase

Comment 3

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

FYI IE11 also fired a focus event followed by a click event.

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

OSX has rather odd focus handling compared to the other platforms.

Comment 5

[Neil Deakin]

The Firefox Mac behaviour could be considered wrong, but we've always focused html elements on click on all platforms so I don't see why we would change this now. I would however say that the Chrome behaviour on Windows is wrong.

Comment 6

[jase.williams]

I have also posted a ticket on Chromium so i will link it here:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=312478&thanks=312478&ts=1383003937

Comment 7

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 8

[jase.williams]

This can be closed