118785 - Part-selection of some URLs impossible

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[John Levon]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020105
BuildID:    checkout finish: Mon Jan 7 23:15:17 GMT 2002

I cannot select the


ftp://ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk/pub/linux/vsftpd-1.0.1.tar.gz

URL on the given page such that only :

ftp://ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk/pub/linux/

is selected (for pasting to go to there).

I can't start from the middle (drag and drop gets enabled) and
I can't start from the start (selects all previous text)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to select part of the URL from the start using the mouse
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Either goes into drag and drop, or selects all previous text on the
page too.

Expected Results:  Allowed me to select part of the URL !

Comment 1

[Jonas Jørgensen]

You can hold Alt down while selecting to disable drag'n'drop.

Comment 2

[John Levon]

a) no I can't, my window manager takes Alt. (KDE2 kwin)

b) this doesn't explain the weird beginning of line behaviour
   on this particular page.

Comment 3

[Jonas Jørgensen]

No dups found, marking NEW.

Could it have something to do with the link being inside a <table>? If so, this
might be related to bug 54418.

Comment 4

[mjudge]

this link is in a table of 0 with.  selecting to the "left" of the link to 
start the selection snaps the selection to before the TABLE.  we cannot avoid 
this since we do want people to be able to select whole tables. exactly the 
same thing happens on IE if that means anything to whomever reads this comment.

Comment 5

[John Levon]

so why isn't this tech evang then ? isn't freshmeat high profile enough ?