Permission denied to get property XULElement.selectedIndex

[bauhsoj]

I found 155 topics on this when searching in Google. Some dating back as far as 0.9.2. I am suprised that this bug would still be showing up in 1.0.6.

This error always occurs when setting the focus to a <select> element from an <input> element of type "text", regardless of whether the input element has anything in it or not.

Here is the full error:
Error: [
Exception... "'Permission denied to get property XULElement.selectedIndex' when calling method:
[nsIAutoCompletePopup::selectedIndex]"
nsresult: "0x8057001e (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)"
location: "JS frame :: http://localhost/test_script.js :: switchOnKeyPress :: line 386"
data: no
]
Source File: http://localhost/test_script.js
Line: 386

[Unarmed]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=236791

[bauhsoj]

Thanks. I added my contribution to the bug data.

[bauhsoj]

Any word on when this will be fixed? This bug has been around since Firefox 1.0.6 and is still plaguing the browser in 1.5.0.1.

I have several JavaScript programs that are currently dysfunctional because focus cannot be transferred to a select box when it was previously in a text box.

[Unarmed]

The workaround of disabling autocomplete on the form element still works. mconner set blocking-firefox2 on it, so hopefully it’ll get some attention before 2.0 goes final.

[bauhsoj]

The workaround of disabling autocomplete on the form element still works. mconner set blocking-firefox2 on it, so hopefully it’ll get some attention before 2.0 goes final.

How can autocomplete be disabled on an element-per-element basis? Is there a form element attribute to prevent Firefox from doing this?

[bauhsoj]

Nevermind, I just remembered that "autocomplete" attribute.

[Bastard_]

The beauty of Javascript is the fact that there is more than one way to get at what you need. I was running into this exact issue for something I was working on. I solved it by taking another approach. This may not work for everything, but in my case it was just the ticket.

document.formname.formfield.options[value].selected = true