[whatwg] accesskey attribute with display:none elements

Olli Pettay Olli.Pettay at helsinki.fi
Tue Nov 25 13:41:58 PST 2008


On 11/25/2008 11:17 PM, Calogero Alex Baldacchino wrote:
 > Maybe, the standard behaviour (for both 'display:none' and
 > 'visibility:hidden') could be just focusing (and changing visibility)
 > after pressing the access key (so the user notices what's happening
 > before activating any 'control'), then activating the element after a
 > second press.
 >

That isn't what any of the browsers do currently, so I'm not in favor of
this pretty strange behavior.
And how could the browser know how to change the display value?
 From display:none to display:inline or display:block or display:inline-block or what?



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