Open Bug 202154 Opened 22 years ago Updated 2 years ago

caret mode: caret can appear within html listboxes

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

defect

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(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

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(Keywords: helpwanted, Whiteboard: sunport17)

while in caret mode, i noticed that sometimes you can get the caret to appear *within* an html form control, such as a listbox. 1. go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi 2. turn on caret browsing mode: hit the F7 key and click the Yes button. 3. click just outside (to the right of) a listbox in that page, such as OS or Target listboxes. results: rather than appearing just outside of the listbox (or, not at all), the caret appears within the listbox. for comparison, i opened the same page in composer, but wasn't able to reproduce this: if i clicked outside a listbox, i ended up selecting the table containing the form control. if i clicked inside a listbox, the entire listbox (including its contents) was selected. in either case, the caret didn't appear. [p.s. to turn off caret mode, just hit F7 again.]
> for comparison, i opened the same page in composer, but wasn't able to reproduce > this Composer has some CSS in editorOverride.css explicitly for this purpose, iirc.
Blocks: caretnav
Summary: caret mode: caret can appear within html form controls → caret mode: caret can appear within html listboxes
I can't figure out what bz is talking about on in comment #1.
Keywords: helpwanted
something like 241160. Should caret get into form controls? Now it's getting into textbox and listbox but not into checkbox or dropdown list.
Whiteboard: sunport17
Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.
Assignee: aaronleventhal → nobody
QA Contact: bugzilla → keyboard.navigation
Component: Keyboard: Navigation → User events and focus handling
Severity: minor → S4
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