RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22261 226148
window.onkeydown event.target returns html element when focused on checkbox input element 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226148
Summary window.onkeydown event.target returns html element when focused on checkbox i...
John A. Bilicki III
Reported 2021-05-22 17:21:39 PDT
Created attachment 429442 [details] Test case to easily demonstrate the bug and a small work-around. While this bug is simple how I came across it isn't so I will try to explain it as best as I can and produce a publicly accessible page so others can easily reproduce this bug. The window.onkeydown's event.target is returning the html element instead of the input checkbox element that was clicked. I sometimes get excessive test emails (e.g. working on a cron job) and sometimes my inbox is half-full with these emails so I can't use the check-all checkbox or obviously I'd select other emails that I do not want to delete. I spent some time earlier creating a script that when pressing the up or down arrow key will make the corresponding checkbox above or below match the window.onkeydown/event.target's checked state so I can select the emails I want to delete much faster than manually clicking on ~50 checkbox input elements. I've attached a test case that also includes a non-intuitive work-around. The input checkbox elements are NOT inside of label elements to reduce potential confusion. Blink/Chrome and Gecko/Waterfox/Firefox correctly reference the input element instead of the html element in this circumstance.
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Test case to easily demonstrate the bug and a small work-around. (2.37 KB, application/xhtml+xml)
2021-05-22 17:21 PDT, John A. Bilicki III 		no flags
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2021-05-24 15:02:45 PDT
This is correct behavior - clicking on the checkbox doesn't focus it on macOS. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22261 ***
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