226325 - Trailing stationary caret remnant left after backspace.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Sorry if this is a DUP, I search for 'caret' and nothing came up that I could
see relating to this new behavior.

I'm pretty sure this is a regression from bug 98564.

Seen on Firebird and Seamonkey builds starting 11-16-2003.

When I type text into a textfield, and then backspace, there is a cursor/caret
glyph on the screen.

Steps to Reproduce:

1.  Type fffff into a textfield.
2.  Backspace all the way to the left.
3.  Look at the blinking caret/cursor (correct) and see there's a remnant a few
pixels to the right of it.

I'll attach a screenshot.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Screenshot

This bug happends all the time, just happend when writing this comment (see
screenshot)

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Attachment: Testcase.

Testcase.

To exhibit the bug, enter all 2's, such as:

2222222222

then backspace and you'll see the bug.	It seems to do with the height of the
characters and their interaction with the textfield.

Comment 4

[Alan Switzer]

Your test case works fine for me.  I get no problems.

Using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031116 
Firebird/0.7+

Comment 5

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Screenshot of testcase

Comment 6

[Hermann Schwab]

There is a similar bug filed for this in mailnews,
Bug 226244 Cursor appears in wrong place in text

I´ve tried your testcase,
wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031118

Comment 7

[Jason Bassford]

I can reproduce this bug 100% with 11/19-08 under XP.

Comment 8

[José Jeria]

This is a very visible regression (only on Win XP?) that occurs in textareas,
when composing mails etc. Requesting blocking 1.6b.

Comment 9

[Daniel Kies]

Not just XP. Obvious in win98se as well.

Comment 10

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I think we should back out the change from bug 98564. The old behavior of
nudging the caret in a bit was somewhat ugly, but I suspect that this is so
clearly visibly a bug that it is going to be noticed by a lot more users.  

Kin said he can try to look into this bug but it's unlikely he'll be able to get
to it within our 1.6beta schedule. 

Comment 11

[Scott MacGregor]

the bug was backed out so this regression should be fixed now.

Comment 12

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED using 2004-07-13-08 on Windows XP.