1492946 - No cursor or highlighting in description field when editing pinterest pins

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Cathy]

Attachment: pinterest.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0
Build ID: 20180830143136

Steps to reproduce:

Cleared cache and cookies.
Used "default" profile (i.e., no extensions)
Tried to edit one of my Pinterest pin's description field



Actual results:

No text insertion point  or highlighting show. I can actually type in the field and select text but I can't see what I'm selecting or where my text insertion point is. This has been going on for awhile (tested in FF 56 and 57), but I haven't bothered to file a bug report


Expected results:

Should be able to see text insertion point and highlighting

Comment 1

[Stefan [:StefanG_QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0 (20180925100100)

I have tested this report on OS X 10.12 and Windows 10 using the latest Nightly and Firefox release builds. I was able to reproduce the mentioned behavior. When trying to edit the description of a pin, I'm not seeing the insertion point. In my case, I can't event highlight any text.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Yes, I can reproduce this. Weird. There must be something quirky about the pinterest site that is triggering the problem, but from a brief look in the Inspector I don't see an obvious culprit.

A reduced testcase -- just a text input field with the minimum amount of surrounding document structure and styles -- that shows the same problem would be awesome.

Comment 3

[Cathy]

I forgot to tell you that I do not have this problem in Chrome.

Comment 4

[Xidorn Quan [:xidorn] UTC+10]

This seems to be related to event handling somehow. If I edit the whole page as HTML and change slightly, I can get the cursor and selection after second refocus of the textarea. It's not clear to me what's happening, though...

Comment 5

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

I have reproduced this issue in Nightly v65.0a1, Firefox Beta v64.0, Firefox Release v63.0.3, while it could not be reproduced in any of the following browsers: Chrome, EDGE, Opera. This considered, I most probably is an issue with Firefox, not Pinterest. I will remove the testcase-wanted tag based on the above. If the STR is still not sufficient, please put it back.

STR:
1. Open browser.
2. Go to Pinterest page: https://pinterest.com
3. Log in.
4. Save a pin (any pin).
5. View the pic and click on the edit icon.
6. Click inside the description input box and attempt to insert text.
Actual: The text cursor is not displayed, text can be selected, but it is not visible in the UI.
Expected: Text cursor is visible, text can be highlighted, works as intended.

I will change the bug's component to (Core) Event Handling in hope of a better opinion from that side. If the component is incorrect, please try to change it to a more appropriate component instead of setting it to General.

Thank you for your contribution!

Comment 6

[Cathy]

UPDATE - the problem went away for awhile, but now it's back (FF 68.0 on Mac OS 10.10.5) and even worse in that I can't edit anything in the description field at all. Tried after clearing cache and cookies and disabling add-ons. No problems in Chrome.

Comment 7

[Cathy]

(In reply to Cathy from comment #6)

UPDATE - the problem went away for awhile, but now it's back (FF 68.0 on Mac OS 10.10.5) and even worse in that I can't edit anything in the description field at all. Tried after clearing cache and cookies and disabling add-ons. No problems in Chrome.

NEVER MIND - cleared cookies and cache again and problem went away.