1010988 - Pressing CTRL and clicking on a Element with CSS "display: table" selects all

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Description

[Sven Walter]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Open this template from themeforest.net
http://flatfull.com/themes/todo/index.html

then just press ctrl and click everywhere and see how everything will marked.


Actual results:

everything within the element which has the css style "display: table" will be marked


Expected results:

nothing should be marked. just like you click the page without holding ctrl

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ctrl+click is used to select table cells, no?  This is standard Window UI.  See for example http://www.uwec.edu/help/word07/tb-nav.htm (the "Multiple non-contiguous
cells, rows, or columns" part).

Comment 2

[Sven Walter]

I do not think that this is standard Window or Windows UI. No other Browser will do this. If you build a complex WebApp-Layout with DIV Elements and the "display: table" style, it is really annoying that the ctrl+click behaviour will select the whole page.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> No other Browser will do this.

No other browser supports sane cell selection at all, but that's a bug in those browsers.  Other applications that deal with tables do allow such selections.

Comment 4

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.