23405 2013-10-01 05:46:23 +0000 <dialog>: When a modal <dialog> is closed, focus should return to where it was when the dialog was shown 2014-03-12 23:09:25 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified PC Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal Unsorted 23475 1 falken ian bugs faulkner.steve ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 94061 0 falken 2013-10-01 05:46:23 +0000 Looks like this would be a nice addition for accessibility: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=264959#c4 Otherwise, in Chrome currently, focus resets back up to document.body and you must manually navigate back to where you were before the dialog opened. window.showModalDialog() gets this behavior for free because it doesn't disrupt the focus of the original document when it opens a new window. One detail is what to do if the element that had focus no longer exists or is not focusable. I guess we can reset to document.body in that case. Related is bug 23365, bug 23366 94111 1 ian 2013-10-01 20:30:57 +0000 Seems reasonable. 96611 2 ian 2013-11-20 23:02:09 +0000 I think we probably actually want to never unfocus the element with control focus when a new <dialog> is given window focus. We probably just want each <dialog>, and the top-level Document, to have its own concept of the focused control. 97432 3 ian 2013-12-10 23:14:57 +0000 This is going to fall out of bug 23475 for free, I think. 102273 4 ian 2014-03-12 23:09:25 +0000 Yup, this just ended up working automatically.