127515 - Quirky table highlight behavior

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 82352

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Anthony Goggins]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020406

In highlighting text in the top tables, once the curser goes off the line of
text, it unhighlights it. Also, when the curser goes out of the table, it gets
deselected also.
This bug was brought to my attention from another site, so I decided to try it
on the #4 viewer demo, 'simple tables'. Turns out it wasnt just the page I was
looking at, its mozilla itself.

Try selecting some text, and move the mouse slowly up/down. Then compare it to
moving the mouse faster...

I got another guy with mozilla on linux to do this also, with the same result

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click and hold mouse button on text inside a table
2. Move mouse down/up
3. Try different variations of speed

Actual Results:  Misc. Text gets deselected, text highlighting starts in table
below it, entire page gets selected

Expected Results:  Highlighted cell below it, keep text highlighted

(This bug has been re-posted, due to lack of detail in previous post)

Comment 1

[John Levon]

*** Bug 127509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[anthonyd]

this seems to work correctly for me and as I would expect it to, reporter could 
you please include a testcase that demonstrates this problem.

thanks.
marking bug as WORKSFORME with the understanding it will be reopened with a 
viable testcase.

Comment 3

[Marcus Campbell]

*** Bug 144115 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

Attachment: Minimized testcase showing the problem

This testcase shows the problems when selecting text. What is causing the
problem is the attribute dir="rtl" in the table. Removing that attribute and
selecting text works as expteced. Will attach a second testcase without that
attribute.

Please REOPEN this bug.

Comment 5

[Marcus Campbell]

Reopened and confirmed (2002051208, WinNT), but while constructing a testcase it
became apparent that it's down to a single table near the bottom having the
attribute dir="rtl". This makes it a dupe of bug 82352.

Comment 6

[Marcus Campbell]

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