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Bug 366437

Summary:	SWT Browser: HTML multi-select - Shift-F8 is not working - can't select multiple non-consecutive elements from keyboard
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	mail.alena.k
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	carolynmacleod4
Version:	4.2	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description mail.alena.k

2011-12-12 12:16:51 EST

Build Identifier: 20110218-0911

When using an HTML <select> tag with "multiple" attribute one would use Ctrl+Arrow (in Firefox) or Shift+F8 (in IE) to select multiple non-consecutive items from the keyboard.
In SWT Browser (on Win 7, using IE9 as browser engine) it doesn't work.

This is needed for Accessibility Support.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Using Eclipse SWT Browser on Windows platform, open a web page with an HTML multi select element, for example: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_select_multiple
2.Try selecting several non-consecutive elements from the keyboard.
Normally Shift-F8 would switch on the mode for multi-select in IE, but in Eclipse it's not working.

Comment 1 Carolyn MacLeod

2011-12-16 12:08:05 EST

Just a clarification note:
In FF, press and hold ctrl+arrow to navigate to non-contiguous items, press space to select.
In IE, press shift+F8 to enter multi-select mode, then arrow/space to navigate/select items.

Comment 2 Leo Ufimtsev

2017-08-03 12:28:54 EDT

This is a one-off bulk update. (The last one in the triage migration).

Moving bugs from swt-triaged@eclipse to platform-swt-inbox@eclipse.org and adding "triaged" keyword as per new triage process:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/SWT/Devel/Triage

See Bug 518478 for details.

Tag for notification/mail filters:
@TriageBulkUpdate

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2020-03-19 17:42:07 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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