Bug 191981 - tabbing through web forms does not select pre-filled content in input fields
Summary: tabbing through web forms does not select pre-filled content in input fields
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.2
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
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Keywords: triaged
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Reported: 2009-05-08 00:20 UTC by Mathias Homann
Modified: 2021-03-21 00:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Mathias Homann 2009-05-08 00:20:56 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

when i use the tab key to switch between several filled input fields in a web form, the content in the field that i'm tabbing into does not get selected, i have to press ctrl-a to select it all before i can overwrite or erase.
Comment 1 Dominik Tritscher 2009-06-21 12:42:01 UTC
Basically I can confirm that issue, but I'm not sure if we can consider this a bug. If you click into a pre filled textbox the text isn't selected either, so there is no difference in behaviour.
Comment 2 Rafał Rzepecki 2009-11-20 09:27:07 UTC
This is different than normal behaviour, eg. in dialog boxes and basically anywhere else textboxes are used; and also different than any other browser out there (w3m notwithstanding), it's contrary to what users expect and what makes sense, especially for a mouseless user (such as the one likely to tab into a field). Confirmed.
Comment 3 Mathias Homann 2009-11-20 10:20:21 UTC
Doesn't have to be a "mouseless user"... when you do large amounts of data input through the same webform over and over you usually have the "layout" of the form in your muscle memory after a while. That, together with konqueror's "link shortcuts" (pressing ctrl followed by a letter to activate a link) makes things much faster... unless you have to hit ctrl-a in every field to be able to overwrite the content :/
Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2021-03-21 00:25:51 UTC
Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 10 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

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