119289 - The usage of 'dir="rtl"' property in som etags disrupts the text selection and copying through the entire page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82352

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

Description

[Victor Danilchenko]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221
BuildID:    2001122106

If the property 'dir="rtl"' is used in certain tags (I tested it with <p> and
<table> tags), the ability to select text in multiline paragraphs becomes
disrupted *through the entire page*. The selection can get disjointed, copying a
whole paragraph may copy the first line twice, the selection doesn't span
paragraphs correctly, etc. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use mouse to select a multi-line section of a paragraph
2.Observe it not work correctly
3.Select and copy the whole paragraph, and when you paste it, the text pasted is
different from the text that was selected.

Actual Results:  Selection malfunctioned as described -- it becomes disjoined,
copying selection to the clipboard results in a mangled copy, etc.

Expected Results:  Selection should function the way it does when no 'dir="rtl"'
property is specified

Something as simple as <p dir="rtl> can disrup selection through the entire
page, in other paragraphs.

Comment 1

[timeless]

needs a selection person...

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

Selection is Mike/Saari's group.

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

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

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Mass-assigning the new rtl keyword to RTL-related (see bug 349193).