227009 - Selection of text with mouse in position:relative box prevent onMouseOver event from firing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Ruslan Ismailov]

If I have some text in position:relative, position:absolute or position:fixed
box, then when I select this text with mouse and then mouve mousepointer over
some other block (without releasign mouse pointer) I could not get mouseover
event for this second block. Only if text container is position:static selection
does not prevent omouseover.

But there is no cause for positioning to prevent onmouseover events.

Comment 1

[Ruslan Ismailov]

Attachment: Example for monitor onmouseover event with selectionong

This is testcase for this bug.

Comment 2

[timeless]

personally i'd rather mozilla not pass events to the document while i'm making a
selection, but something tells me web authors will scream bloody murder.

Comment 3

[Stefan Borggraefe]

After the checkin of the patch in bug 53966 the testcase now works for fixed,
absolute and relative, too. Tested with a Linux trunk build from today.