User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Using the following Javascript for validation appears to allow select() to work correctly: function checkDate() { ... if (badInput) { alert("Bad input"); setTimeout("document.getElementById('myDate').select();", 1); } ... } ... <input type="text" name="myDate" id="myDate" onblur="checkDate();"> ... However, when I switch focus to another application and return to Firefox, the alert has been raised again (as it should), click Ok to clear it, discover the alert is raised a second time (shouldn't happen), click Ok to clear it, the browser appears to be working normally but exhibits some bizarre behaviour. Hopefully this information will help isolate the problem. Thanks. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the following Javascript in a function called by onBlur event of a text input: alert("Bad input"); document.getElementById('myDate').focus(); setTimeout("document.getElementById('myDate').select();", 1); 2. The alert will raise and the element will focus and select correctly. 3. Click Ok to clear the alert but do not change the text in the input. 4. Switch focus to another application, then return to Firefox. 5. The alert will be raised again (as it should), click Ok to clear it. 6. The alert will be raised again (it shouldn't), click Ok to clear it. Actual Results: 1) None of the text inputs will receive focus (either by keyboard or mouse) 2) The address bar will not receive focus (either by keyboard or mouse) 3) Dropdowns (SELECT elements) will drop down once and display the OPTION values but will not change to reflect the new value you select. The list will not drop down again. 4) Links still work correctly. 5) When you navigate away from the problem page, then return by clicking a link, these problems persist. Expected Results: The alert should have only be raised once. After clearing it, all form elements in the browser should have functioned normally. At the very least, it seems that navigating away and returning to a fresh copy of the page should have functioned properly.

Brian, do you still see this bug with recent trunk builds?

keywords: javascript, AJAX, DWR, SELECT, OPTION, display, DOM Hi, I have a similar problem trying to load the options for a select using AJAX and event handling. Scenario: I have two selects that loads data with AJAX (with DWR package), the first one loads inconditinally but the second one loads when the previous select exits with an onBlur event (The first select has an onkeypress handler too) The problem appears when I click to the second select. The DOM information (document.getElemById...selectedIndex returns 0) is not syncronized with the presentation: I get an empty selection in the "select" but the popup shows 2 options. I tried disabling the second select, then load the data and finally enable it but the same problem appeared. Looking for similar bugs (61174) I tried setting the "size" attr. to "1" but it didn't displayed any option at all.

I'm sorry I didn't paste the browser info. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4

Sorry, I failed to reply to this earlier. Yes, I still see this same problem in Firefox 2.0.0.4. The setTimeout workaround is no longer necessary to avoid an error, but the same problem occurs with the onBlur event after clicking to another application and returning to Firefox.

This bug isn't very prominent in searches for "onblur focus disable"; I found it by my first result, bug 53579. keywords: onblur, focus, disable, text field, textfield, To enable form elements (including the GUI) again, bring another window (can be the Downloads one) into focus after dismissing the alerts, then come back to Firefox.

2016, and it's still broken... See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23432592/javascript-firefox-behavior-blur-by-mouse-click-bug for details, and http://jsfiddle.net/s9sc4/ for demo.