144938 - cursor should change when it is over a selection

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Kaplun]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020408
BuildID:    2002040803

After selecting a text in an text input box (single and multi line) or in the
text editor, there is no visual indication that the text can be dragged. The way
to indicate that a text can be dragged in windows is to change the cursor to
arrow (i'm not sure how it is called but you can compare with IE).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.select text at a text input box
2.move the mouse over the selection
3.

Actual Results:  The cursor remains as a I-beam, indicating text insertion

Expected Results:  The cursor should be an arrow, indicating text dragging is
possible.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To UI design.

Comment 2

[Michael Lefevre]

from UI design. confirming as an enhancement request...

Comment 3

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

This is a good idea for everything, not just textarea.  There are several bugs
which prevent this:
(a) :-moz-selection does not work in textarea
(b) :-moz-selection { cursor: normal } makes text unselectable

Comment 4

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Well, it is now also mentioned in the Candidate Recommendation for
css3-selectors: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#selection
But I don't know if this bug is only about selection in form controls?

Comment 5

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

the ::-moz-selection { cursor: something; }  bug is really the issue found in
Bug 231894, which has a patch (by me) pending review.

Comment 6

[Anne (:annevk)]

Callek, are you sure that is the right bug?

Comment 7

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

re: comment#6 (anne), apparantly that bug# is not the correct one.  And
unfortunately I cannot find the correct one by looking in my review que or in my
bugspam for reviews...

Which means that as far as I am personally concerned the patch, (if there ever
was one, and I was not being just totally insane when I wrote that comment) is
no longer findable by me, (it is no longer in my source tree).