It is still an issue in a current Firefox release. It is not possible to program custom input elements with, for instance, french language support like on this site: http://create3000.de/users- guide/components/keydevicesensor/stringsensor/#example.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/58693 Title: onKeyPress event not fired when typing accents Status in Mozilla Firefox: Expired Status in firefox package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in firefox-3.5 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Browser javascript does not detect certain pressed keys. Reproduce: Set any HTML object onkeypress attribute like for example this: <textarea onkeypress="alert(event.which);"></textarea> If you press any key in this textarea, it shows you key code. But if you want write ü or ä (German) in a way, that you press umlaut first and then letter,nothing happen. It does not work with some other letters (áíéščřžě) and probably more. It was tested in Opera, Firefox, Epiphany. (in Opera you have to replace event.which by event.keyCode) You can try it here: http://extender.ic.cz/keypress.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/58693/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
