[html5] r2272 - [] (0) WF2: Revamp of activation behavior definitions and related details.
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Thu Oct 2 18:08:36 PDT 2008
Author: ianh
Date: 2008-10-02 18:08:35 -0700 (Thu, 02 Oct 2008)
New Revision: 2272
Modified:
index
source
Log:
[] (0) WF2: Revamp of activation behavior definitions and related details.
Modified: index
===================================================================
--- index 2008-10-02 22:37:26 UTC (rev 2271)
+++ index 2008-10-03 01:08:35 UTC (rev 2272)
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
<div class=head>
<p><a class=logo href=http://www.whatwg.org/ rel=home><img alt=WHATWG src=/images/logo></a></p>
<h1>HTML 5</h1>
- <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=draft-recommendation-—-date:-01-jan-1901>Draft Recommendation — 2 October 2008</h2>
+ <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=draft-recommendation-—-date:-01-jan-1901>Draft Recommendation — 3 October 2008</h2>
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<dl><dt>Multiple-page version:</dt>
@@ -1863,11 +1863,6 @@
<p>The interface <dfn id=domtimestamp><code>DOMTimeStamp</code></dfn> is defined in
DOM3 Core. <a href=#refsDOM3CORE>[DOM3CORE]</a></p>
- <p>The term <dfn id=activation-behavior>activation behavior</dfn> is used as defined in the
- DOM3 Events specification. <a href=#refsDOM3EVENTS>[DOM3EVENTS]</a> <span class=XXX>At
- the time of writing, DOM3 Events hadn't yet been updated to define
- that phrase.</span></p>
-
<p id=alternate-style-sheets>The rules for handling alternative
style sheets are defined in the CSS object model specification. <a href=#refsCSSOM>[CSSOM]</a></p>
@@ -6666,13 +6661,6 @@
<h5 id=interactive-content><span class=secno>3.4.1.7 </span>Interactive content</h5>
- <!-- Don't change the above <dfn> or the text below without checking
- all cross-references. Some of them refer specifically to the
- activation behavior stuff. -->
-
- <p class=XXX>Parts of this section should eventually be
- moved to DOM3 Events.</p> <!-- but see comment above -->
-
<!--
TESTS:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A%3Cp%20tabindex%3D1%3Etest%20%3Ca%20href%3D%22%22%3E%20%3Cem%3Etest%3C/em%3E%20%3C/a%3E%0A%3Cscript%3E%0A%20function%20test%20%28e%29%20%7B%20w%28e.type%20+%20%27%20on%20%27%20+%20e.target.tagName%20+%20%27%20through%20%27%20+%20e.currentTarget.tagName%29%3B%20%7D%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27a%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27click%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27a%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27DOMActivate%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27p%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27click%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27p%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27DOMActivate%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%3C/script%3E%0A
@@ -6684,40 +6672,93 @@
<p><dfn id=interactive-content-0>Interactive content</dfn> is content that is specifically
intended for user interaction.</p>
- <p>Certain elements in HTML can be activated, for instance
- <code><a href=#the-a-element>a</a></code> elements, <code><a href=#the-button-element>button</a></code> elements, or
- <code><a href=#the-input-element>input</a></code> elements when their <code title=attr-input-type><a href=#attr-input-type>type</a></code> attribute is in the <a href=#radio-button-state title=attr-input-type-radio>Radio Button</a> state. Activation
- of those elements can happen in various (UA-defined) ways, for
- instance via the mouse or keyboard.</p>
+ <p>Certain elements in HTML have an <a href=#activation-behavior>activation
+ behavior</a>, which means the user agent should allow the user to
+ manually trigger them in some way, for instance using keyboard or
+ voice input (though not mouse clicks, which are handled above). When
+ the user triggers an element with a defined <a href=#activation-behavior>activation
+ behavior</a>, the default action of the interaction event<!-- XXX
+ --> must be to <a href=#run-synthetic-click-activation-steps>run synthetic click activation steps</a> on
+ the element.</p>
- <p>When activation is performed via some method other than clicking
- the pointing device, the default action of the event that triggers
- the activation must, instead of being activating the element
- directly, be to <a href=#fire-a-click-event>fire a <code title="">click</code>
- event</a> on the same element.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn id=run-synthetic-click-activation-steps>run synthetic click activation
+ steps</dfn> on an element, the user agent must <a href=#run-pre-click-activation-steps>run pre-click
+ activation steps</a> on the element, then <a href=#fire-a-click-event>fire a <code title=event-click>click</code> event</a> at the element. The
+ default action of this <span title=event-click>click</span> event
+ must be to <a href=#run-post-click-activation-steps>run post-click activation steps</a> on the
+ element. If the event is canceled, the user agent must <a href=#run-canceled-activation-steps>run
+ canceled activation steps</a> on the element instead.</p>
- <p>The default action of this <code title=event-click>click</code>
- event, or of the real <code title=event-click>click</code> event
- if the element was activated by clicking a pointing device, must be
- to <span title="fire a DOMActivate event">fire a further <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code> event</span> at the
- same element, whose own default action is to go through all the
- elements the <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code>
- event bubbled through (starting at the target node and going towards
- the <code>Document</code> node), looking for an element with an
- <a href=#activation-behavior>activation behavior</a>; the first element, in reverse tree
- order, to have one, must have its activation behavior executed.</p>
+ <p>Given an element <var title="">target</var>, the <dfn id=nearest-activatable-element>nearest
+ activatable element</dfn> is the element returned by the following
+ algorithm:</p>
- <p class=note>The above doesn't happen for arbitrary synthetic
+ <ol><li><p>If <var title="">target</var> has a defined <a href=#activation-behavior>activation
+ behavior</a>, then return <var title="">target</var> and abort
+ these steps.</li>
+
+ <li><p>If <var title="">target</var> has a parent element, then set
+ <var title="">target</var> to that parent element and return to the
+ first step.</li>
+
+ <li><p>Otherwise, there is no <a href=#nearest-activatable-element>nearest activatable
+ element</a>.</li>
+
+ </ol><p>When a pointing device is clicked, the user agent must run these
+ steps:</p>
+
+ <ol><li><p>Let <var title="">e</var> be the <span title="">nearest
+ activatable element</span> of the element designated by the user,
+ if any.</li>
+
+ <li><p>If there is an element <var title="">e</var>, <a href=#run-pre-click-activation-steps>run
+ pre-click activation steps</a> on it.</li>
+
+ <li>
+
+ <p>Dispatching the required <code title=event-click>click</code>
+ event.</p>
+
+ <p class=XXX>Another specification presumably requires the
+ firing of the <span title=event-click>click</span> event?</p>
+
+ <p>If there is an element <var title="">e</var>, then the default
+ action of the <span title=event-click>click</span> event must be
+ to <a href=#run-post-click-activation-steps>run post-click activation steps</a> on element <var title="">e</var>.</p>
+
+ <p>If there is an element <var title="">e</var> but the event is
+ canceled, the user agent must <a href=#run-canceled-activation-steps>run canceled activation
+ steps</a> on element <var title="">e</var>.</p>
+
+ </li>
+
+ </ol><p class=note>The above doesn't happen for arbitrary synthetic
events dispatched by author script. However, the <code title=dom-click><a href=#dom-click>click()</a></code> method can be used to make it
happen programmatically.</p>
- <p>For certain form controls, this process is complicated further by
- <a href=http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-click>changes
- that must happen around the click event</a>. <a href=#refsWF2>[WF2]</a></p> <!-- XXX WF2: when this is merged into
- this spec, update xrefs -->
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn id=run-post-click-activation-steps>run post-click activation
+ steps</dfn> on an element, the user agent must <a href=#fire-a-simple-event>fire a simple
+ event</a> called <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code> at that element. The
+ default action of this event must be to <a href=#run-final-activation-steps>run final activation
+ steps</a> on that element. If the event is canceled, the user
+ agent must <a href=#run-canceled-activation-steps>run canceled activation steps</a> on the element
+ instead.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn id=run-pre-click-activation-steps>run pre-click activation steps</dfn>
+ on an element, it must run the <dfn id=pre-click-activation-steps>pre-click activation steps</dfn>
+ defined for that element, if any.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn id=run-canceled-activation-steps>run canceled activation steps</dfn>
+ on an element, it must run the <dfn id=canceled-activation-steps>canceled activation steps</dfn>
+ defined for that element, if any.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn id=run-final-activation-steps>run final activation steps</dfn> on
+ an element, it must run the <dfn id=activation-behavior>activation behavior</dfn> defined
+ for that element. Activation behaviors can refer to the <code title=event-click>click</code> and <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code> events that were fired
+ by the steps above leading up to this point.</p>
+
+
+
<h4 id=transparent-content-models><span class=secno>3.4.2 </span>Transparent content models</h4>
<p>Some elements are described as <dfn id=transparent>transparent</dfn>; they have
@@ -11368,8 +11409,8 @@
<code>INVALID_ACCESS_ERR</code> exception and abort these
steps.</li>
- <li><p>If the target of the <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code> event is an
- <code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> element with an <code title=attr-img-ismap><a href=#attr-img-ismap>ismap</a></code> attribute specified, then
+ <li><p>If the target of the <code title=event-click>click</code>
+ event is an <code><a href=#the-img-element>img</a></code> element with an <code title=attr-img-ismap><a href=#attr-img-ismap>ismap</a></code> attribute specified, then
server-side image map processing must be performed, as follows:</p>
<ol><!-- http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A...%3Ca%20href%3D%22%23%22%3E%3Cimg%20ismap%20usemap%3D%22%23a%22%20src%3D/resources/images/smallcats%3E%3C/a%3E%0A%3Cmap%20name%3Da%3E%3Carea%20shape%3Drect%20coords%3D0%2C0%2C50%2C50%20href%3Db%3E%3C/map%3E --><li>If the <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code>
@@ -11394,12 +11435,7 @@
suffix</a></var>, then take that into account when following the
hyperlink.</li>
- </ol><p class=note>One way that a user agent can enable users to follow
- hyperlinks is by allowing <code><a href=#the-a-element>a</a></code> elements to be clicked, or
- focussed and activated by the keyboard. This <a href=#interactive-content-0 title="interactive content">will cause</a> the aforementioned
- <a href=#activation-behavior>activation behavior</a> to be invoked.</p>
-
- <p>The DOM attributes <dfn id=dom-a-href title=dom-a-href><code>href</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-ping title=dom-a-ping><code>ping</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-target title=dom-a-target><code>target</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-rel title=dom-a-rel><code>rel</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-media title=dom-a-media><code>media</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-hreflang title=dom-a-hreflang><code>hreflang</code></dfn>, and <dfn id=dom-a-type title=dom-a-type><code>type</code></dfn>, must each
+ </ol><p>The DOM attributes <dfn id=dom-a-href title=dom-a-href><code>href</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-ping title=dom-a-ping><code>ping</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-target title=dom-a-target><code>target</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-rel title=dom-a-rel><code>rel</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-media title=dom-a-media><code>media</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-a-hreflang title=dom-a-hreflang><code>hreflang</code></dfn>, and <dfn id=dom-a-type title=dom-a-type><code>type</code></dfn>, must each
<a href=#reflect>reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the same
name.</p>
@@ -20578,12 +20614,7 @@
hyperlinks">follow the hyperlink</a> defined by the
<code><a href=#the-area-element>area</a></code> element, if any.</li>
- </ol><p class=note>One way that a user agent can enable users to follow
- hyperlinks is by allowing <code><a href=#the-area-element>area</a></code> elements to be clicked,
- or focussed and activated by the keyboard. This <a href=#interactive-content-0 title="interactive content">will cause</a> the aforementioned
- <a href=#activation-behavior>activation behavior</a> to be invoked.</p>
-
- <p>The DOM attributes <dfn id=dom-area-alt title=dom-area-alt><code>alt</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-coords title=dom-area-coords><code>coords</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-href title=dom-area-href><code>href</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-target title=dom-area-target><code>target</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-ping title=dom-area-ping><code>ping</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-rel title=dom-area-rel><code>rel</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-media title=dom-area-media><code>media</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-hreflang title=dom-area-hreflang><code>hreflang</code></dfn>, and <dfn id=dom-area-type title=dom-area-type><code>type</code></dfn>, each must
+ </ol><p>The DOM attributes <dfn id=dom-area-alt title=dom-area-alt><code>alt</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-coords title=dom-area-coords><code>coords</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-href title=dom-area-href><code>href</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-target title=dom-area-target><code>target</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-ping title=dom-area-ping><code>ping</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-rel title=dom-area-rel><code>rel</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-media title=dom-area-media><code>media</code></dfn>, <dfn id=dom-area-hreflang title=dom-area-hreflang><code>hreflang</code></dfn>, and <dfn id=dom-area-type title=dom-area-type><code>type</code></dfn>, each must
<a href=#reflect>reflect</a> the respective content attributes of the same
name.</p>
@@ -22832,6 +22863,26 @@
descendant in <a href=#tree-order>tree order</a> is the <code><a href=#the-label-element>label</a></code>
element's <a href=#labeled-control>labeled control</a>.</p>
+ <p>The <code><a href=#the-label-element>label</a></code> element's exact default presentation and
+ behavior, in particular what its <a href=#activation-behavior>activation behavior</a>
+ might be, if anything, should match the platform's label
+ behavior.</p>
+
+ <div class=example>
+
+ <p>For example, on platforms where clicking a checkbox label checks
+ the checkbox, clicking the <code><a href=#the-label-element>label</a></code> in the following
+ snippet could trigger the user agent to <span>run synthetic click
+ activation steps on the <code><a href=#the-input-element>input</a></code> element, as if
+ the element itself had been triggered by the user:</span></p>
+
+ <pre><label><input type=checkbox name=lost> Lost</label></pre>
+
+ <p>On other platforms, the behavior might be just to focus the
+ control, or do nothing.</p>
+
+ </div>
+
<p>The <code title=attr-fae-form><a href=#attr-fae-form>form</a></code> attribute is used to
explicitly associate the <code><a href=#the-label-element>label</a></code> element with its
<a href=#form-owner>form owner</a>.</p>
@@ -22852,15 +22903,7 @@
form-associated elements</span>, on getting, must return that
<code>NodeList</code> object.</p>
- <!-- The label element's exact default presentation and behaviour
- should match the platform's label behaviour. For example, on
- platforms where clicking a checkbox label checks the checkbox,
- clicking a label element should cause a click event to be
- synthesised and fired at the checkbox. XXX should define activation
- behaviour here; clicking on nested link? nested label? label when it
- has a checkbox? etc -->
-
<h4 id=the-input-element><span class=secno>4.10.4 </span>The <dfn><code>input</code></dfn> element</h4>
<dl class=element><dt>Categories</dt>
@@ -37915,16 +37958,11 @@
<h3 id=activation><span class=secno>6.3 </span>Activation</h3>
- <p>The <dfn id=dom-click title=dom-click>click()</dfn> method must <a href=#fire-a-click-event>fire a
- <code>click</code> event</a> at the element, whose default action
- is the <span title="fire a DOMActivate event">firing of a further
- <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code> event</span> at
- the same element, whose own default action is to go through all the
- elements the <code title=event-DOMActivate>DOMActivate</code>
- event bubbled through (starting at the target node and going towards
- the <code>Document</code> node), looking for an element with an
- <a href=#activation-behavior>activation behavior</a>; the first element, in reverse tree
- order, to have one, must have its activation behavior executed.</p>
+ <p>The <dfn id=dom-click title=dom-click>click()</dfn> method must, if the
+ element has a defined <a href=#activation-behavior>activation behavior</a>, <a href=#run-synthetic-click-activation-steps>run
+ synthetic click activation steps</a> on the element. Otherwise,
+ the user agent must <a href=#fire-a-click-event>fire a <code>click</code> event</a> at
+ the element.</p>
Modified: source
===================================================================
--- source 2008-10-02 22:37:26 UTC (rev 2271)
+++ source 2008-10-03 01:08:35 UTC (rev 2272)
@@ -936,12 +936,6 @@
<p>The interface <dfn><code>DOMTimeStamp</code></dfn> is defined in
DOM3 Core. <a href="#refsDOM3CORE">[DOM3CORE]</a></p>
- <p>The term <dfn>activation behavior</dfn> is used as defined in the
- DOM3 Events specification. <a
- href="#refsDOM3EVENTS">[DOM3EVENTS]</a> <span class="XXX">At
- the time of writing, DOM3 Events hadn't yet been updated to define
- that phrase.</span></p>
-
<p id="alternate-style-sheets">The rules for handling alternative
style sheets are defined in the CSS object model specification. <a
href="#refsCSSOM">[CSSOM]</a></p>
@@ -6620,13 +6614,6 @@
<h5>Interactive content</h5>
- <!-- Don't change the above <dfn> or the text below without checking
- all cross-references. Some of them refer specifically to the
- activation behavior stuff. -->
-
- <p class="XXX">Parts of this section should eventually be
- moved to DOM3 Events.</p> <!-- but see comment above -->
-
<!--
TESTS:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0A%3Cp%20tabindex%3D1%3Etest%20%3Ca%20href%3D%22%22%3E%20%3Cem%3Etest%3C/em%3E%20%3C/a%3E%0A%3Cscript%3E%0A%20function%20test%20%28e%29%20%7B%20w%28e.type%20+%20%27%20on%20%27%20+%20e.target.tagName%20+%20%27%20through%20%27%20+%20e.currentTarget.tagName%29%3B%20%7D%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27a%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27click%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27a%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27DOMActivate%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27p%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27click%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%20document.getElementsByTagName%28%27p%27%29%5B0%5D.addEventListener%28%27DOMActivate%27%2C%20test%2C%20false%29%3B%0A%3C/script%3E%0A
@@ -6638,46 +6625,107 @@
<p><dfn>Interactive content</dfn> is content that is specifically
intended for user interaction.</p>
- <p>Certain elements in HTML can be activated, for instance
- <code>a</code> elements, <code>button</code> elements, or
- <code>input</code> elements when their <code
- title="attr-input-type">type</code> attribute is in the <span
- title="attr-input-type-radio">Radio Button</span> state. Activation
- of those elements can happen in various (UA-defined) ways, for
- instance via the mouse or keyboard.</p>
+ <p>Certain elements in HTML have an <span>activation
+ behavior</span>, which means the user agent should allow the user to
+ manually trigger them in some way, for instance using keyboard or
+ voice input (though not mouse clicks, which are handled above). When
+ the user triggers an element with a defined <span>activation
+ behavior</span>, the default action of the interaction event<!-- XXX
+ --> must be to <span>run synthetic click activation steps</span> on
+ the element.</p>
- <p>When activation is performed via some method other than clicking
- the pointing device, the default action of the event that triggers
- the activation must, instead of being activating the element
- directly, be to <span>fire a <code title="">click</code>
- event</span> on the same element.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn>run synthetic click activation
+ steps</dfn> on an element, the user agent must <span>run pre-click
+ activation steps</span> on the element, then <span>fire a <code
+ title="event-click">click</code> event</span> at the element. The
+ default action of this <span title="event-click">click</span> event
+ must be to <span>run post-click activation steps</span> on the
+ element. If the event is canceled, the user agent must <span>run
+ canceled activation steps</span> on the element instead.</p>
- <p>The default action of this <code title="event-click">click</code>
- event, or of the real <code title="event-click">click</code> event
- if the element was activated by clicking a pointing device, must be
- to <span title="fire a DOMActivate event">fire a further <code
- title="event-DOMActivate">DOMActivate</code> event</span> at the
- same element, whose own default action is to go through all the
- elements the <code title="event-DOMActivate">DOMActivate</code>
- event bubbled through (starting at the target node and going towards
- the <code>Document</code> node), looking for an element with an
- <span>activation behavior</span>; the first element, in reverse tree
- order, to have one, must have its activation behavior executed.</p>
+ <p>Given an element <var title="">target</var>, the <dfn>nearest
+ activatable element</dfn> is the element returned by the following
+ algorithm:</p>
+ <ol>
+
+ <li><p>If <var title="">target</var> has a defined <span>activation
+ behavior</span>, then return <var title="">target</var> and abort
+ these steps.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>If <var title="">target</var> has a parent element, then set
+ <var title="">target</var> to that parent element and return to the
+ first step.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>Otherwise, there is no <span>nearest activatable
+ element</span>.</p></li>
+
+ </ol>
+
+ <p>When a pointing device is clicked, the user agent must run these
+ steps:</p>
+
+ <ol>
+
+ <li><p>Let <var title="">e</var> be the <span title="">nearest
+ activatable element</span> of the element designated by the user,
+ if any.</p></li>
+
+ <li><p>If there is an element <var title="">e</var>, <span>run
+ pre-click activation steps</span> on it.</p></li>
+
+ <li>
+
+ <p>Dispatching the required <code title="event-click">click</code>
+ event.</p>
+
+ <p class="XXX">Another specification presumably requires the
+ firing of the <span title="event-click">click</span> event?</p>
+
+ <p>If there is an element <var title="">e</var>, then the default
+ action of the <span title="event-click">click</span> event must be
+ to <span>run post-click activation steps</span> on element <var
+ title="">e</var>.</p>
+
+ <p>If there is an element <var title="">e</var> but the event is
+ canceled, the user agent must <span>run canceled activation
+ steps</span> on element <var title="">e</var>.</p>
+
+ </li>
+
+ </ol>
+
<p class="note">The above doesn't happen for arbitrary synthetic
events dispatched by author script. However, the <code
title="dom-click">click()</code> method can be used to make it
happen programmatically.</p>
- <p>For certain form controls, this process is complicated further by
- <a
- href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#the-click">changes
- that must happen around the click event</a>. <a
- href="#refsWF2">[WF2]</a></p> <!-- XXX WF2: when this is merged into
- this spec, update xrefs -->
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn>run post-click activation
+ steps</dfn> on an element, the user agent must <span>fire a simple
+ event</span> called <code
+ title="event-DOMActivate">DOMActivate</code> at that element. The
+ default action of this event must be to <span>run final activation
+ steps</span> on that element. If the event is canceled, the user
+ agent must <span>run canceled activation steps</span> on the element
+ instead.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn>run pre-click activation steps</dfn>
+ on an element, it must run the <dfn>pre-click activation steps</dfn>
+ defined for that element, if any.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn>run canceled activation steps</dfn>
+ on an element, it must run the <dfn>canceled activation steps</dfn>
+ defined for that element, if any.</p>
+ <p>When a user agent is to <dfn>run final activation steps</dfn> on
+ an element, it must run the <dfn>activation behavior</dfn> defined
+ for that element. Activation behaviors can refer to the <code
+ title="event-click">click</code> and <code
+ title="event-DOMActivate">DOMActivate</code> events that were fired
+ by the steps above leading up to this point.</p>
+
+
+
<h4>Transparent content models</h4>
<p>Some elements are described as <dfn>transparent</dfn>; they have
@@ -11949,9 +11997,8 @@
<code>INVALID_ACCESS_ERR</code> exception and abort these
steps.</p></li>
- <li><p>If the target of the <code
- title="event-DOMActivate">DOMActivate</code> event is an
- <code>img</code> element with an <code
+ <li><p>If the target of the <code title="event-click">click</code>
+ event is an <code>img</code> element with an <code
title="attr-img-ismap">ismap</code> attribute specified, then
server-side image map processing must be performed, as follows:</p>
@@ -11988,12 +12035,6 @@
</ol>
- <p class="note">One way that a user agent can enable users to follow
- hyperlinks is by allowing <code>a</code> elements to be clicked, or
- focussed and activated by the keyboard. This <span
- title="interactive content">will cause</span> the aforementioned
- <span>activation behavior</span> to be invoked.</p>
-
<p>The DOM attributes <dfn
title="dom-a-href"><code>href</code></dfn>, <dfn
title="dom-a-ping"><code>ping</code></dfn>, <dfn
@@ -22556,12 +22597,6 @@
</ol>
- <p class="note">One way that a user agent can enable users to follow
- hyperlinks is by allowing <code>area</code> elements to be clicked,
- or focussed and activated by the keyboard. This <span
- title="interactive content">will cause</span> the aforementioned
- <span>activation behavior</span> to be invoked.</p>
-
<p>The DOM attributes <dfn
title="dom-area-alt"><code>alt</code></dfn>, <dfn
title="dom-area-coords"><code>coords</code></dfn>, <dfn
@@ -25331,6 +25366,26 @@
descendant in <span>tree order</span> is the <code>label</code>
element's <span>labeled control</span>.</p>
+ <p>The <code>label</code> element's exact default presentation and
+ behavior, in particular what its <span>activation behavior</span>
+ might be, if anything, should match the platform's label
+ behavior.</p>
+
+ <div class="example">
+
+ <p>For example, on platforms where clicking a checkbox label checks
+ the checkbox, clicking the <code>label</code> in the following
+ snippet could trigger the user agent to <span>run synthetic click
+ activation steps</psna> on the <code>input</code> element, as if
+ the element itself had been triggered by the user:</p>
+
+ <pre><label><input type=checkbox name=lost> Lost</label></pre>
+
+ <p>On other platforms, the behavior might be just to focus the
+ control, or do nothing.</p>
+
+ </div>
+
<p>The <code title="attr-fae-form">form</code> attribute is used to
explicitly associate the <code>label</code> element with its
<span>form owner</span>.</p>
@@ -25355,15 +25410,7 @@
form-associated elements</span>, on getting, must return that
<code>NodeList</code> object.</p>
- <!-- The label element's exact default presentation and behaviour
- should match the platform's label behaviour. For example, on
- platforms where clicking a checkbox label checks the checkbox,
- clicking a label element should cause a click event to be
- synthesised and fired at the checkbox. XXX should define activation
- behaviour here; clicking on nested link? nested label? label when it
- has a checkbox? etc -->
-
<h4>The <dfn><code>input</code></dfn> element</h4>
<dl class="element">
@@ -42946,16 +42993,11 @@
<h3>Activation</h3>
- <p>The <dfn title="dom-click">click()</dfn> method must <span>fire a
- <code>click</code> event</span> at the element, whose default action
- is the <span title="fire a DOMActivate event">firing of a further
- <code title="event-DOMActivate">DOMActivate</code> event</span> at
- the same element, whose own default action is to go through all the
- elements the <code title="event-DOMActivate">DOMActivate</code>
- event bubbled through (starting at the target node and going towards
- the <code>Document</code> node), looking for an element with an
- <span>activation behavior</span>; the first element, in reverse tree
- order, to have one, must have its activation behavior executed.</p>
+ <p>The <dfn title="dom-click">click()</dfn> method must, if the
+ element has a defined <span>activation behavior</span>, <span>run
+ synthetic click activation steps</span> on the element. Otherwise,
+ the user agent must <span>fire a <code>click</code> event</span> at
+ the element.</p>
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