Menu: on mouse click menu close, browser scrolls to last focused item

[simonjb]

When the menu is closed by left clicking the mouse the browser scrolls to the last focused item if it is not on the page. To reproduce on FF (cannot test on IE right now due to #3135):

• open dijit/tests/test_Menu.html in FF
• click in the "hello there!" text area to give it focus
• scroll down until the text area is not on the screen
• open the menu with mouse right click
• close the menu by left clicking on the page background
• browser scrolls up so that "hello there!" is on screen

[bill]

Hmm, any ideas how to fix this? We do want to restore focus to the previously focused item, right?

[simonjb]

Yes, we want to restore focus to the previously focused item when we close with the keyboard. However, I think that when we close with the mouse we want focus to go to the item under the mouse pointer when the user clicked.

[bill]

Hmm, I understand the reason but this worries me. Try this experiment on Windows or Mac:

• highlight a word in Notepad or your favorite editor
• move the mouse away
• right click
• select "cut"

It cuts the highlighted word even though your mouse wasn't over it. That seems like important functionality and I don't want to break it. Anyway let's think about this.

[alex]

Milestone 2.0 deleted

[bill]

I don't reproduce this, even when using firefox 3.6 and dojo 0.9. I do see the focus shift though if you click a menu choice.

IIRC though the popup code only restores focus if the focus hasn't already been shifted somewhere else. Although I don't remember if clicking a blank area of the page counts as shifting focus somewhere.

Anyway, I don't think we are going to do anything about this ticket.