Closed Bug 99728 Opened 23 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Modal dialogs do not block keyboard events (only mouse events)

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

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

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RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Future

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(Reporter: bessettecm03, Unassigned)

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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 BuildID: 20011091311 The JavaScript alert() box will open again if the mouse is focused on the browser window (focus follows mouse in my window manager) and enter is hit. This is inconsistant because if you attempt to click on the button that the enter triggered, it doesn't allow it because of the first alert box.. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. go to page with an alert pop-up triggered by a button onClick 2. click the button to trigger the alert 3. attempt to click on the button again (without having closed the first alert; you will notice it won't work) 4. move focus back to main browser (without closing original alert box) 5. hit enter (a new alert will pop up when it shouldn't) Actual Results: same alert pops open Expected Results: no second alert box
This actually has to do with the fact that _all_ keyboard events are allowed through when modal dialogs are up. See also bug 99252 for a site which focuses the page so one can type in a form and even submit it (using tab and enter) all with a modal alert up. Bug 65521 has a patch which claims to also fix this...
Blocks: 53476
Severity: normal → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Depends on: 65521
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: JavaScript alert() box opens again if mouse focuses on browser window and enter is hit → Modal dialogs do not block keyboard events (only mouse events)
could reproduce the bug on RedHat Linux 7.1 BuildID: 2001-09-14 0.9.4 Seems to be specific to Linux only. see the attached testcase
Attached file testcase -- test on linux (deleted) —
okay... linux should really have modal dialogs, even in mouse focus tracking window manager setups. If that isn't how linux works, there isn't much to be done about it. ->danm to decide if he can/should do anything about this bug
Assignee: joki → danm
gtk modality is pretty broken. here's hoping that whatever eventually shakes out of bug 65521 will work for this bug, too.
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla0.9.7
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.7 → mozilla0.9.8
*** Bug 114474 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Target Milestone: mozilla0.9.8 → ---
Target Milestone: --- → Future
QA Contact: madhur → rakeshmishra
QA Contact: rakeshmishra → trix
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030228 Phoenix/0.5 This is still an issue on new builds. I noticed it while trying out the HTML test suite at w3.org. Go to http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Test/HTML401/current/tests/sec18_2_3-BF-15.html and do the test. Try dismissing the resultant dialog with the enter key...
Assignee: danm.moz → nobody
This is still an issue. Since gtk has changed several versions since the bug was reviewed, maybe it can be fixed now?
Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"
QA Contact: trix → events
Component: Event Handling → User events and focus handling

Marking this as Resolved > Worksforme since the issue doesn't happen on Ubuntu 20.04 on either of the latest Firefox versions.
If anyone is still able to reproduce this please re-open or file a new issue.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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