230356 - Functions bound to focus or blur events not run when event occurs on text input elements

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Alex Murray]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040107
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040107

Functions bound to the focus and blur events are not run when the events occur
on text input elements - bound functions run as they should when the events
occur on select elements (for example). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Alex Murray]

Attachment: Test case

Passing focus to the Select object also seems to fire an extraneous blur event
before the focus event. Not sure if this is a bug.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

focus events just don't bubble from text inputs.  Arguably, they should not
bubble at all (per the spec, they shouldn't).

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 286613 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Vicente Salvador]

Sure this is a bug. Doing complex forms with all events bugs is impossible.

It seems that "event code" has not been reviewed since a long time ago.

Bug confirmed in FF 2.0.4

Comment 5

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

Attachment: use capture phase for focus and bubble events

Per DOM Events recommendation focus and blur events don't bubble, so
capturing event listeners should be used. This bug is INVALID.
(It was a bug that focus and blur events did bubble in some cases.)