Bug 3662 – onClick event for TD element doesn't fire unless its contents are clicked

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Tables

[Sebastien Boisvert]

An onClick event specified for a TD element will not fire unless its contents are clicked, instead of 
simply clicking anywhere within the cell.

Steps to reproduce:
1- load attached testcase in browser
2- click anywhere in table cell, except on text
3- click text in table cell

Actual result:
 alert triggered by onclick event only pops up when the cell's contents are clicked

Expected result:
 alert should popup regardless of where within the cell the mouse click occurs

Additional Information:
 Works as expected in Firefox, Camino, IE/Win, IE/Mac

[Sebastien Boisvert]

Created attachment 2562 [details]
testcase

[Chris Petersen]

Confirming with TOT Webkit and Safari 2.0 (v412).

[Frido Ferdinand]

Also occurs with the mouseover event

[Dave Hyatt]

*** Bug 4339 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Darin Adler]

The behavior of this is not entirely consistent. I can construct test cases where the onclick event 
sometimes fires and sometimes does not fire. I'll attach one soon.

[Darin Adler]

Created attachment 3395 [details]
patch to fix this

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Comment on attachment 3395 [details]
patch to fix this

r=me

can this be tested in an automated way?

[Darin Adler]

I don't see a way to exercise the hit testing code from JavaScript.

[David Harrison]

Added originally attached test case to manual_tests.