Bug 25051

Summary:

Optgroup in select breaks keyboard navigation.

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Alexander Ljungberg <aljungberg>

Component:

Forms

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Severity:

Normal

CC:

acorncom, adele, alexanderkahn, benjamin, bugzilla, hirogeek, krinklemail, mail, peter.ostrander, rik, robin

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.5

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Reduced test case to demonstrate select keyboard acceleration problem.	none

Alexander Ljungberg

Reported 2009-04-04 16:31:50 PDT

When the <optgroup> tag is used, keyboard navigation does not work in a select drop down if the drop down is opened. Keyboard navigation still works if the drop down is in its closed state. Tested on build 530.5+. The attached test case demonstrates the problem. There are two select drop downs in the page. The first one contains an optgroup, the second one does not. Everything else is equal. To reproduce the problem: Incorrect result: 1. Click the first drop down to bring up the popup with selections. 2. Type "I" on the keyboard. 3. The choice "Zenbe" is highlighted. Correct result: 1. Click the second drop down bring up the popup with selections. 2. Type "I" on the keyboard. 3. The choice "Infinity Internet" is highlighted.

Attachments
Reduced test case to demonstrate select keyboard acceleration problem. (824 bytes, text/html) 2009-04-04 16:36 PDT, Alexander Ljungberg	no flags	Details
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Alexander Ljungberg

Comment 1 2009-04-04 16:36:04 PDT

Created attachment 29258 [details] Reduced test case to demonstrate select keyboard acceleration problem. First select box works incorrectly, second works correctly when selecting items through typing on the keyboard with the select popup open.

Anthony Ricaud

Comment 2 2009-04-12 07:20:29 PDT

Confirmed with r42369.

Reid Beels

Comment 3 2011-02-15 15:07:46 PST

Confirmed in r78528

Alexander Kahn

Comment 4 2011-06-07 08:15:59 PDT

I think fixing this would be a great improvement. This trips me up a lot.

Robin Stocker

Comment 5 2011-06-25 13:33:02 PDT

Confirmed in Chrome 14.0.797.0 dev. Firefox behaves correctly by the way (maybe that is a motivation).

bugzilla

Comment 6 2012-01-19 01:25:32 PST

This is really annoying. Even Internet Explorer (checked with version 9) handles this correctly. That's quite embarrassing, huh? Please fix this soon! Thanks a lot!

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 7 2012-06-21 10:07:20 PDT

*** Bug 89644 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Peter Ostrander

Comment 8 2013-02-13 12:33:08 PST

Experiencing this same problem across Webkit browsers. I've created a jsfiddle that displays the issue. http://jsfiddle.net/peterostrander/dtt9L/

Peter Ostrander

Comment 9 2013-02-13 13:31:48 PST

It also appears that this only occurs when an optgroup has nested options inside it. If optgroups are present in the select, but none of them contain nested options, then keyboard navigation works correctly.

fr0d0z

Comment 10 2013-11-21 17:19:58 PST

A workaround using jQuery can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8829451/bug-in-select-optgroup-using-keyboard-accelerators-in-webkit Would love to see a fix for this though :-)

Benjamin Poulain

Comment 11 2014-03-04 22:04:30 PST

It seems to work now. I just tried with WebKit trunk on Mavericks and I can navigate when the popup is up.

Alexander Ljungberg

Comment 12 2014-03-05 02:05:29 PST

I can confirm this is resolved, even in vanilla Safari 7.0.2.

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