27913 2015-01-27 23:57:40 +0000 focusing steps don't contain scrolling an element into view 2016-04-28 16:08:30 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML a11y Task Force unspecified PC All RESOLVED MOVED a11y_focus P2 normal --- 1 mail chaals chaals lwatson mike public-html-a11y public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking w3bugs dave.null oldest_to_newest 117525 0 mail 2015-01-27 23:57:40 +0000 All browsers scroll an element into view [1] upon the element gaining focus [2]. Of course they behave differently in doing so (varying scroll to top, bottom, center). Can we have this scrolling step formally defined so user agents might eventually behave the same way? I'd also like to mention that this scrolling behavior can currently *not* be prevented. When CSS Transitions and CSS Animations are used to reveal the focus target, authors have to wait for the transition to finish before setting focus. If they don't wait, content is at risk of being scrolled by the user agent, effectively messing up any complex UI. It would go a long way if we could extend Element.focus [3] in a way that prevents this native scrolling. [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom-view/#scroll-an-element-into-view [2] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/editing.html#focusing-steps [3] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/editing.html#focus-management-apis 117526 1 chaals 2015-01-28 00:06:43 +0000 I think this might be a duplicate of an existing bug, but I don't have time to check yet. Adding it to the list in the hopes that I do so soon :) 121960 2 chaals 2015-07-10 22:33:32 +0000 Is this a duplicate of 16186? 121964 3 mail 2015-07-10 23:12:19 +0000 I don't believe this is a duplicate of 16186 per se - although the issues seem closely related. Bug 16186 is looking at things based on document navigation, i.e. in response to the document's URL fragment changing. From what I understand, focusing a particular element does not equate to navigating the document. I may be mistaken and this may actually be the same thing, in which case this bug is to be considered a duplicate of 16186 - with the addition of asking for a way to prevent or delay the scrolling. 123061 4 mail 2015-09-03 13:04:09 +0000 bug was copied to whatwg/html - https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/94 126272 5 lwatson 2016-04-28 16:08:30 +0000 Moved to HTML on Github: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/300