Open Bug 1165756 Opened 10 years ago Updated 4 years ago

Text selection cursor type

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Version:
41 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: akayanni, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build ID: 20150516030207 Steps to reproduce: Take say this article... https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/18674-uae-releases-three-sisters-after-arrested-over-twitter-campaign Now copy a paragraph of text. You see the I cursor disappear on the very edge of the start of the paragraph. Yet for some distance where the cursor is an arrow the selection is perfect. Then you go a bit too far and all kinds of stuff is selected. So clearly there is some background "intelligence" that is not understood by the cursor. Expected results: The cursor should have more than a Zero margin at the edge of a paragraph. As it stands you are deluded into thinking you have to be super accurate when this is not the case or you select more than you desire. I would think a margin of 5px would be of benefit.
Component: Untriaged → Selection
Product: Firefox → Core

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe, this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.

Severity: normal → S4
Priority: -- → P5
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