290932 - selection locked inside div

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 42676

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Caleb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050419 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050419 Firefox/1.0+

It seems that when you select some text inside a DIV you cannot drag your
selection outside of it.

Reproduction:

1. Open the specified URL
2. Scroll to one of the comments, for example, this one:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6445#22
3. Start your selection in the text that has the white background.

Pull your mouse up/down so that the mouse exits the box/div and you will notice
that the selection will not extend to other objects.

Note: Pulling the mouse up to scroll and then back down makes the page go mad.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Basically, this is the same as bug 42676, only at mozillazine.org they use
overflow:auto.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 42676 ***