Bug 6181 – Change and focus events happen in different order if using tab vs. clicking

• Component: DOM
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Jonathan Hurshman]

The order of events when leaving a changed field and focusing on a new one is different depending if 
the focus change occurred by pressing tab or by clicking.

If the user leaves a changed field and sets focus into a new one by pressing tab, the order is as follows:
1. blur old
2. change old
3. focus new

However, if the focus is changed by clicking, the order is:
1. blur old
2. focus new
3. change old
4. click new

So in the tab case, onchange fires before onfocus, and in the click case, onfocus fires before onchange.

For reference, the event order in both Firefox and IE 6 for these two scenarios is:
Tab:
1. change old
2. blur old
3. focus new

Click:
1. change old
2. blur old
3. focus new
4. click new

[Joost de Valk (AlthA)]

Confirmed. nice testcase.

[Jesse Pelton]

Works for me with Safari 2.0.4 (419.3) and a 2006-08-01 WebKit nightly. I always get change, blur, focus, (click, if appropriate), as described for Firefox and IE.

[Jonathan Hurshman]

Yes, it works for me also in 419.3.

[Daniel Bates]

Created attachment 75100 [details]
Layout tests

I am unable to reproduce this issue with Mac Safari version 5.0.3 (6533.19.4). And this observation is consistent with the observation of both Jesse Pelton <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6181#c2> and  Jonathan Hurshman <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6181#c3>.

We should add DRT test cases so as to ensure that we don't regress this bug.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Comment on attachment 75100 [details]
Layout tests

Nice!

[Daniel Bates]

Committed r72953: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/72953>