Autocomplete: Unable to use up and down arrow keys in a textarea or a content editable (Firefox)

[paftek38]

Setting the autocomplete on either a textarea or a content editable, I cannot use the up and down arrow keys to move the cursor.

Tested with the following versions of Firefox :

• Firefox 17 Linux
• Firefox 11 and 17 Win

It works well in the latest Chrome and IE8.

​http://jsfiddle.net/9m4FF/1/

[Scott González]

This makes sense, since we're preventing the keypress event. But the code for handling key events is so gross that it's really hard to change. I wish browsers were consistent about key events. Looks like we might need to add a fourth flag to handle all the browser quirks unless we can find some way to clean this up.

[MoonScript]

I believe this should fix it: ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/940

[Jason Moon]

Autocomplete: Don't prevent keypress for multiline. Fixed #8911 - Autocomplete: Unable to use up/down arrow keys in a textarea (Firefox).

Changeset: f5f08791536e689e008b04d6ea9677811353d456

[Jason Moon]

Autocomplete: Don't prevent keypress for multiline. Fixed #8911 - Autocomplete: Unable to use up/down arrow keys in a textarea (Firefox). (cherry picked from commit f5f08791536e689e008b04d6ea9677811353d456)

Changeset: c1f7f527afeb1bba50a576924b327f812b48ad91