1316563 - A Content Editable Span inside a Link doesn't allow you to select the text to edit

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Brett]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

See my example here: https://jsfiddle.net/uyz1g3um/2/

Which has the following HTML:

<a href="#">
  <span contenteditable="true">Try to select the middle of this text with your mouse to edit Firefox</span>
</a>
<br /><br />

<span contenteditable="true">
  <a href="#">This works in Firefox</a>
 </span>



Actual results:

If I click on the first link to edit the text, it only places the cursor at the beginning (or end), I can't place it midway.


Expected results:

I should be able to click the text midway like the second example. This works in Chrome, IE11
Broken in: Edge and Firefox

Comment 1

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

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.