Modal Dialog does not get focus on first click

Hi,

Identified an issue in Windows Safari 5 with Modal Dialog boxes. The below is issue.
When a Message box (Validation message) is displayed to the user the control is not getting transferred to the message box instead it still lies with the parent page.
For Example:
A list box is visible with values in parent page, when you click delete, the confirmation message pops up.
On the mouse click on confirmation message, the focus would be changed to an item in the list box of the parent page and that particular item gets deleted instead of the selected item.

Understanding:
-When a Modal dialog box is displayed control is not passed to the Dialog box .
-Once the user click mouse once then the control is passed to the Dialog box.
-The second mouse click only the action is performed.

MAC OSX 10.6.3 Snow leopard, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Aug 18, 2010 6:05 AM

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Aug 18, 2010 12:36 PM in response to Madhavi vadali

Work-around: Click on the "title bar" of the modal dialog box. You now have control. If you click other areas of the modal dialog before clicking the title bar, it will usually register behind the box.

I think Apple forgot the code to 'select the modal dialog' after 'displaying it', which is why the work-around works perfectly.

It's a common bug that hasn't been fixed yet in 5.x that did not exist in 4.x. I would submit a bug report and hope they fix it in the next update.

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Modal Dialog does not get focus on first click

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