288114 - "End" key works like "Home" key in textfields

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joona Palaste]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050323 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-1.3.1

In textfields on a HTML page, the "End" key works like the "Home" key, i.e. it
moves the cursor to the start of the line, not to the end. The "Home" key also
works like the "Home" key.
In addition, clicking the mouse on the textfield to the right of the entered
text also moves the cursor to the start of the line, not to the end.
This usually only happens on one-line textfields, but it's happening right now
in the "Steps to Reproduce" text area.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to an HTML page containing textfield.
2. Type some text in the textfield.
3. Press the "End" key.


Actual Results:  
The cursor moves to the start of the line.


Expected Results:  
The cursor should move to the end of the line.


This sometimes happens, sometimes doesn't. I can fathom no logic to what is
causing it to appear or disappear. It's not a bug in my keyboard or my operating
system, as textfields in every other program work normally.

Comment 1

[Gabriel Wicke]

Same here, happens only if a line contains only numbers though, both in
single-line text fields and textareas. Very annoying when trying to enter a lot
of numbers. This bug has been around for a long time (at least two months).

Also, placing the cursor in the middle of a text line in a textarea and pressing
'up' moves the cursor to the start of the line above if it contains only numbers.

Reproducible: 100%

Steps to reproduce:
1) Enter a number in a text field, textarea or the url bar
2) click past the end of the line
3) cursor is at start of line rather than the end

While typing this i discovered another related behaviour- i had 'Enter a number'
in the next-to-last line, and an empty last line. Clicking past the end of
'Enter a number' would take the focus to the empty last line. This didn't work
again after typing another paragraph. Deleting the added text (removing the 1)
in front of 'Enter a number' above and the text after it) shows the behaviour
again..

Another example, 100% reproducible:
1) type '100%' on a line in a textarea
2) click past the end of that line
result: cursor is between 100 and %

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0
(GTK/Ubuntu Gnome integration)

Comment 2

[Joona Palaste]

Gabriel Wicke is correct.

Actually, it's not only a problem with fields or lines consisting only of
numbers - it happens on fields or lines not containing any letters, regardless
of what else they contain.

Trying to use the X Window System "middle-mouse-click paste" past the end of a
line not containing letters pastes the text at the start of the line. This is
irritating when trying to paste a URL as an external link in Wikipedia.

Comment 3

[Joona Palaste]

Seems to have been fixed in Firefox 1.0.3.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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