144521 - Cannot find text inside textarea

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120568

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Rohan Talip]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

It is not possible to search for text in a textarea.

This bug has been mentioned before in the following bugs:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76374
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103911


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bring up any web page with text in a textarea (e.g. go to reply or forward a
message inline on mail.yahoo.com)

2. Type control-F or "Edit -> Find in this page" to bring up the "Find in this
page" dialog

3. Type in a word that appears only in the textarea.  Click Find.  Dialog "The
text you entered was not found" should appear.

4. Type in a word that appears in the textarea and also outside the textarea. 
Click Find.  Only the text outside the textarea should be found, regardless of
how many times you click Find.

Actual Results:  If there was text in the textarea that matched the search
string and the text appeared nowhere else, it was not found.

If there was text in the textarea that matched the search string and the text
also appeared outside the textarea, only the text outside the textarea was found.


Expected Results:  Mozilla should find the text in the textarea.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120568 ***