onclick event does not work for editbox in firewatir

Question

Hi All,

I am facing problem for onclick event fire event method it is not working in firefox(3.5.6) while fine in IE

when i run the script in Firefox it does not perform the onlcick event opeartion, just execute the step without giving any error While same code when i run on IE it is working fine.Is it firewatir bug? onclick event does not work for editbox in firewatir

$ie.form(:id ,"mainForm").text_field(:id, "ItemTagSearchWidgetGameDate").fire_event("onclick")

<input type="text" readonly="readonly" value="click here to pick a game date" class="gameDate" onclick="bam.dateSelector.prepareAndShow(this)" style="width: 235px;" id="ItemTagSearchWidgetGameDate">


firewatir (1.6.5)


is this bug with firewatir ?