27333 2014-11-15 06:16:06 +0000 Most user agents (Chrome, Firefox) seem to distinguish between space and enter. Enter submits the form, even for radio buttons, space selects the checkbox. 2015-10-07 04:24:15 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - UI Events unspecified Other other RESOLVED MOVED https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#file-upload-state-(type=file) P3 normal --- 1 contributor travil garykac ian manishearth mike public-webapps www-dom public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 114962 0 contributor 2014-11-15 06:16:06 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#file-upload-state-(type=file) Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#file-upload-state-(type=file) Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html Comment: Most user agents (Chrome, Firefox) seem to distinguish between space and enter. Enter submits the form, even for radio buttons, space selects the checkbox. Should the spec be updated for this? (Additionally, it's not very clear in the spec the different ways in which an element can be activated) Posted from: 103.21.125.76 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0 114963 1 manishearth 2014-11-15 06:17:35 +0000 (Submitter here) The correct spec link is https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#radio-button-state-%28type=radio%29, though there are similar issues throughout the spec. 115147 2 ian 2014-11-19 22:09:35 +0000 This is mostly up to the browser. That it is possible for "enter" to submit the form is described here: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#implicit-submission ...but I don't know what else we can say. We can't say "space selects, enter submits", because what if the browser doesn't have a keyboard? Or has two "enter" keys? Or wants space bar to page down, and "x" to select? 115187 3 manishearth 2014-11-20 03:52:13 +0000 So we only consider hitting theenter key as activation? This seems to say differently: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dom3events/raw-file/tip/html/DOM3-Events.html#event-type-keydown > If the key is the 'Enter' or ' ' key and the current focus is on a state-changing element, the default action MUST be to dispatch a click event, and a DOMActivate event if that event type is supported by the user agent (refer to activation triggers and behavior for more details) So this means that ' ' and 'Enter' should activate -- however as defined in the spec, activation means selection for a checkbox, which deviates from the spec. I'm not even sure if 'Enter' should be triggering a click event. 115248 4 ian 2014-11-20 18:17:48 +0000 That sounds like a problem with the DOM3 Events spec. 115249 5 manishearth 2014-11-20 18:22:48 +0000 Moving over to DOM3 as per Hixie's comment 118751 6 art.barstow 2015-03-21 15:11:56 +0000 Bulk move of all D3E bugs to the UI Events component. 123568 7 garykac 2015-10-07 04:24:15 +0000 Now tracking as: https://github.com/w3c/uievents/issues/33