Bug 239964

Summary:

The select element does not fire click events

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Daniel Jacobs <danielhunterjacobs>

Component:

UI Events

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

NEW

Severity:

Normal

CC:

akeerthi, alex, webkit-bug-importer

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

Safari 15

Hardware:

Unspecified

OS:

Unspecified

See Also:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767062
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240135

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Safari behavior tested	none
Test case	none

Daniel Jacobs

Reported 2022-05-02 08:19:12 PDT

Created attachment 458681 [details] Safari behavior tested Create this page and see that the click event is not triggered when using normal nor accessible ways of choosing options: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h1>Onclick select test</h1> <label for="select">Select an option:</label> <select id="select"> <option value="1">One</option> <option value="2">Two</option> </select> <div>Total number of onclick events: <span id="output">0</span></div> <script> const select = document.getElementById("select"); const output = document.getElementById("output"); select.addEventListener("click", function() { output.textContent = parseInt(output.textContent) + 1; }); </script> </body> </html> What Chromium browsers do is trigger the click event for select elements whenever an option is selected. This includes triggering the event when selection is made using the keyboard. When to fire it is arguable: you could argue it should fire both when opening the select and selecting an option, though I feel that's less useful and that doesn't match Chromium behavior. However, it should not never fire, and it currently doesn't in Safari. cc: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767062

Attachments
Safari behavior tested (124.76 MB, video/quicktime) 2022-05-02 08:19 PDT, Daniel Jacobs	no flags	Details
Test case (524 bytes, text/html) 2022-05-02 08:26 PDT, Daniel Jacobs	no flags	Details
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Daniel Jacobs

Comment 1 2022-05-02 08:26:36 PDT

Created attachment 458682 [details] Test case

Radar WebKit Bug Importer

Comment 2 2022-05-09 08:20:32 PDT

<rdar://problem/92962113>

Daniel Jacobs

Comment 3 2022-05-09 08:44:38 PDT

Opened https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7907

alex

Comment 4 2025-10-08 09:39:34 PDT

This is still an issue in safari 18. And even though the spec isn't clearly defined about how/when a click event should be fired, the fact that no click event is fired at all seems like a critical issue to me. Not being able to listen to select click events really limits the use cases of the native select element.

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