Manuel Razzari wrote: > On 9/21/06, Zoe M. Gillenwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But I'm curious whether Firefox's behavior is correct. Are elements with >> overflow: auto supposed to receive focus? >> > > Just a random guess, but maybe here's the explanation for firefox's behavior: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97283 > > Check after comment #50. > > I didn't read it all, but it seems focusing is needed to make > scrolling work within the overflowing element. >
I read everything from comment 50 on, and I'm just more confused. :-) First of all, I'm not clear if this fix is even in current versions of Firefox. Do you know? The last comments are still people complaining about the fix only being available in the nightlies and asking when it will be added to the released browser. So I can't tell if this bug fix is in the current browser. If it is in the current browser, it probably is the explanation for why the overflow: auto elements receive focus. Comment 50 suggests that Firefox implemented the tabbing focus for overflow elements to fix this bug. This suggests that there is no spec that governs this behavior, but that it was purely a browser-based decision. If this is true (I still don't know), that's good to know, because that means that I can file my own bug about it to request that they stop this behavior. Focusing elements with overflow on them, even when they don't generate scrollbars, has the ability to affect a lot of pages if they use overflow for float containment. So I'd like to get that behavior changed. Thanks, Zoe -- Zoe M. Gillenwater Design Services Manager UNC Highway Safety Research Center http://www.hsrc.unc.edu ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
