141011 - RFE: Clicking in textarea should deselect text outside of textarea

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56472

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[The Cunctator]

See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124617.

On a page with a textarea box, if you select text outside of the box, then click
inside of the box, the selected text remains highlighted. It should become
deselected.

To reproduce:
1. go to a page with a textarea box
2. select some text on the page
3. click in the textarea box

I'm at a loss at how anyone could make use of multiple selections within a
single window. If focus of the main text of the window (what's selected on
command-A) is lost to a textarea box, how can it be returned by the user?

Or is this functionality supposed to be for wacky javascripts and the such?

This RFE could probably be superceded by the successful resolution of
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141007 (Inactive selections not
differentiated from active selections).

Currently Mozilla's non-standard support of multiple in-window selections has a
flawed implementation; it should either be fixed through elimination (this RFE)
or through proper implementation (#141007).

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 56472 (clicking to focus something should deselect selected text) or
bug 36848 (should only be one text selection per window).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56472 ***