112101 - Can not select text paragraphs on the page with mouse dragging

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82352

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Jacob Wexler]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112009

Dragging the mouse over the displayed text (main article)
does not select it for a cut & paste operation.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag mouse over the main text area
2. No paragraphs are marked as selected
3. Cut and paste into a text editor shows nothing

Actual Results:  No text is selected

Expected Results:  Text should be selcted by a mouse drag.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->selection

Comment 2

[Terri Preston]

I see this behavior on Win XP build 2001120303, marking new

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

Is this still a bug?
WFM, Linux CVS.

Comment 4

[Terri Preston]

Yes, I see this behavior still on win 2k build 2002010403

Comment 5

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

Build 20020214 Win2K: using the above URL, text selection is flaky.  Sometimes
is manage to select a whole paragraph, but usually the selection fails when
moving from one line to another. I think this is a BiDi problem.

Comment 6

[Jacob Wexler]

I doubt that it is a BiDi problem. The articles in the English version of the
site ( http://www.haaretzdaily.com/ ) show the same problem. I looked off-line
at one
of the articles, taking out the dir="ltr" tag in front of the article's body, and
the problem was still there.

Comment 7

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

I stand corrected. Somehow I've been able to miss this problem :) I think I've
also seen a bug about selection of multiple paragraphs not working if the style
changes or something..

Comment 8

[mjudge]

this IS a bidi problem believe it or not.  in layout if ANY of the content has 
a BIDI setting on it it causes this behaviour.  I had this bug in the sample 
code of tables i believe once.  Debug->ViewerDemos->SimpleTables where 
selection was totally hosed in tables on that page.  If you remove the last 
example and remove anything there having to do with RTL then selection of ALL 
the tables reverts back to normal.  

The last example with the bidi setting messes up selection for the whole page.

MJ

Comment 9

[Felix Miata]

2002030716 OS/2

I have same problem on some pages:
e.g. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118899 (tab 7 of 7)

but not on others:
e.g. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112101 (tab 5 of 7)

I can't see any rhyme or reason to it. 

Comment 10

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

It is a Bidi problem, but it also happens on UTF-8 pages.

Comment 11

[Felix Miata]

Not NT only any more. OS needs update.

Comment 12

[Jacob Wexler]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82352 ***