Bug 35533 – onclick event in select elements don't work

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Component: Forms

[Matthew]

As the summary states onclick events on select objects do not work.

Here is a sample page: http://pyther.net/a/test.html

onchange works, but onclick does not in webkit. This works in firefox. 

According to w3schools onclick is a supported event: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_select.asp

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

What browser are you testing with? Is it Qt or Gtk based?

This test works for me in Safari on Mac OS X.

[Matthew]

The problem happens with Midori, uzbl, and chromium so (gtk based).

However the problem also appears to happens with Arora (qt based).

[Matthew]

Just to clarify this happens the test on on the dropdown boxes not the submit button. I removed the submit button on the test page.

Expected Behavior:
onChange - JS alert box when dropdown item is changed
onClick - JS alert box when dropdown is clicked

Actual Results
onchange - works - alert box shows up when item is changed
onclick - does NOT work - alert box does not appear

[Dusty Phillips]

Under Chromium for Linux, in pyther's test page, I don't get the onclick alert until I have clicked twice on the select box. Clicking once drops down the menu, then if I click again on the select box (NOT on the menu) the onclick is finally fired.

[Daniel Michalik]

I confirm this bug on WebkitGtk. I use the current git head and I don't get the onclick alert. I tried what Dusty Phillips suggested as well, but even if I click the dropdown twice I don't get the alert. 
As reported before the onchange works as expected.