1323985 - Double-click multi-line string selects only the line, not whole string

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[msvitek]

Attachment: afterdoubleclick.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20161201181357

Steps to reproduce:

Have a textarea element and add a long string to it without spaces or special chars so it goes on multiple lines. For example:

<textarea style="width=10px;">ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff</textarea>

Try selecting the string by double clicking it.

It happens on both Linux FF (50.0.2) and Windows 10 FF


Actual results:

Double click on multi-line string selects only the actual line on which you are clicking. See the attached screenshot.


Expected results:

It should have selected the whole string spanning multiple lines.

Comment 1

[maarten]

I can confirm this for firefox version 76.0 (64-bit) Linux.

Comment 2

[maarten]

I can confirm this for firefox version 76.0 (64-bit) Linux.

This has to do with the break-word setting.

Reproduce:

1. https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss3_word-wrap
2. double click on "thisisaveryveryveryveryveryverylongword" broken spread over multiple lines: only the line that was double-clicked is selected.

Expected result: the whole word is selected.