149267 - [FIX] {drag-select} can't select by dragging from a line containing table or hr without br

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

2002-06-02-03 Mac OS X, 1.0rc2 x86 Linux

to reproduce
1) find a page with tables and/or HR's (I used a bug page)
2) try to select something by dragging from end/beginnig of line with text 
3) try to drag from beginning/end of line containing only a table/HR

Result:
2) selects part of page
3) does not (you need to start drag from empty space before/after line content)

Expected:
both behaves the same
behavior of 2) is preferred (to do some selection)

Comment 1

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

-using all tags view revealed it is possible to select normally from before HR
and it is possible to select (part of) table from before table
-the problem is fixed for HR when BR is appended after the HR

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->selection

Comment 3

[John Levon]

Sounds like a dupe of bug 118785 at a quick glance

Comment 4

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

No, this is different.
there it selects too much(whole table), here it selects nothing(it seems BR
would be selected if it was there).
Seeing even in the browser, it is really not Editor related.

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

This looks like bug 52258. Reporter, are you still seeing this on current builds?

Comment 6

[Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek]

No, this is different ;)
If 52258 was not fixed it would be possible to drag rulers. 
This bug is about (left) click insensitive areas, usually to the right of a table.

For example, there is a table "Actions" in the bottom of this page. When the
page is displayed in a sufficiently large window (or small font), there is a
blank space to the right of the table.
- dragging from such area does not start selection
- clicking in area space when part of page is already selected does not cancel
the selection.

On mac OS X (10.2.4) I can still see the problem with 
Phoenix 0.4 (the unofficial mac build)
Moz 2003-03-04 (Mach-O, gtk widgets)
Moz 2003-01-24 (Mach-O, Carbon widgets)
Moz 2002-10-16 (CFM)

Comment 7

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

This is fixed by the patch in bug 253076

Comment 8

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #7)
> This is fixed by the patch in bug 253076

So why not mark it as such? 

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> So why not mark it as such? 

I didn't know at the time of the comment if the final patch for bug 253076
(after review) would still fix this bug. I should have written "this will most
likely be fixed by bug 253076".
It appears to be fixed now though (most likely due to bug 253076).

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