Bug 25577 – in a select with the names of the months i'd like to press "9" for september

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Component: Forms

[Alexander Kempgen]

when entering a birthday or any other day, websites sometimes present the user with a list of the names of the months of the year (january, febuary, ...) rather than their corresponding number (1, 2, ...).

expected behavior:
to be able to "tab through" a form like that, it would be useful, if one could select the name of the month by typing its number (type "9" to select "september")

actual behavior:
when typing "9" (or any other number) the selection jumps to "april" because that month (in english) is the first in an alphabetical sorting and numbers are considered to come before "a" in the alphabet. this might make sense in every other context, but not when dealing with months.

real life example code (from an internal website):

<select id="user_birthday_month" name="user_birthday[month]"> 
<option selected="selected" value="1">January</option> 
<option value="2">February</option> 
<option value="3">March</option> 
<option value="4">April</option> 
<option value="5">May</option> 
<option value="6">June</option> 
<option value="7">July</option> 
<option value="8">August</option> 
<option value="9">September</option> 
<option value="10">October</option> 
<option value="11">November</option> 
<option value="12">December</option> 
</select>

[Ahmad Saleem]

I think this is feature request and this is current behavior across all browsers:

*** Safari 16.5 & Chrome Canary 116 ***

Same as Safari 16.5 and only show selection 'April' upon pressing '9'

*** Firefox Nightly 115 ***

Do nothing while pressing any character at least on macOS.

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Just wanted to share latest result.