Closed Bug 89339 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Text fields when tabbed should have all text selected

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling
Platform:
All
FreeBSD
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 28583

People

(Reporter: klui, Assigned: aaronlev)

Details

Using Mozilla 0.9.2 under MacOS 9.1, FreeBSD 4.3, and Windows NT 4. 
I've been accustomed to many GUI applications that exhibit the following 
behavior when tabbing across text fields: when focus shifts to the new 
field, all text within it is selected, making it much easier to copy/replace it. 
The dialog boxes, most notably the Proxy settings do not have this 
behavior and the same goes for web pages with forms. I do, however, 
think it is incorrect for a text field to get all its text selected when it gets 
focus from a mouse click, like how IE behaves under Windows and 
MacOS for the URL bar. The current behavior of mouse clicks in the URL 
bar in Mozilla is the correct one.
->aaronl to triage. dup?
Assignee: alecf → aaronl

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28583 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: Keyboard: Navigation → User events and focus handling
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