Hotkey problem Firefox

mkuiper Dec 11, 2008 5:50 AM

Hello,

I am working on an application which makes heavy use of the richfaces hotkey component. While testing in firefox I discovered that the hotkeys only work when the cursor focus is on an input field.

Some more background information: each hotkey uses a selector using a class name. They look something like ".pageForm-document-grid" and ".pageForm-document-form", etc. This class name is derived from the component's id, with each ":" character replaced with "-" because colons are special in CSS selectors. These classnames are set on div elements inside each component (in this example a grid and a form component).

In IE7, this works fine. If the focus is anywhere within the div (on the div itself or any field inside it) the hotkey triggers. In Firefox 3 however, the hotkey only works when the focus is inside input fields.

I was wondering if someone has encountered this problem before or if it has even been tested this way. I looked in the issue tracker but couldn't find anything about it.

If necessary, I can provide an example application to demonstrate the issue.

Regards,

Marc

1. Re: Hotkey problem Firefox

ilya_shaikovsky Dec 11, 2008 5:54 AM (in response to mkuiper)

yes, please provide source code you using.
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2. Re: Hotkey problem Firefox

mkuiper Dec 11, 2008 6:31 AM (in response to mkuiper)

Alright, I'll wrap something up later today.
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3. Re: Hotkey problem Firefox

mkuiper Dec 11, 2008 9:10 AM (in response to mkuiper)
Ok, I thought I might need to provide an example, but I ripped it down to its basics and was left with this:

<a4j:outputPanel id="panel" styleClass="this-is-a-test" style="display: block; width: 300px; height: 200px; padding: 50px; background-color: red;"> <h:inputText id="text" /> <rich:hotKey id="hotkey" selector=".this-is-a-test" key="ctrl+q" handler="alert('ctrl+q pressed');" /> </a4j:outputPanel>

When you press ctrl+q in the red box you should see an alert, but in firefox it only appears when focus is in the input field.
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4. Re: Hotkey problem Firefox

ilya_shaikovsky Dec 11, 2008 9:23 AM (in response to mkuiper)

ok.. but div element can't be itself focused. so just works as is.
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5. Re: Hotkey problem Firefox

mkuiper Dec 11, 2008 9:34 AM (in response to mkuiper)

Oh, you're right. Silly IE is making things easy for us again. :-p I guess I'll have to work around that then.

Thanks for your help.
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