1625298 - caret positioned on the left when focus is set on a contenteditable node with text-align set to center

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[thomas]

Attachment: cursordoesnotstartincenter.gif

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Set text-align to center on a contenteditable div. Then click on it.

Actual results:

Caret is positioned on the left of the div.

Expected results:

Caret should be positioned in the middle of the give (which happens as soon as you start typing)

Comment 1

[thomas]

Attachment: simple htm example

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Because this bug's Severity has not been changed from the default since it was filed, and it's Priority is P3 (Backlog,) indicating it has been triaged, the bug's Severity is being updated to S3 (normal.)

Comment 4

[philippe]

I'm surprised that this bug, reported 4 years ago, is still no resolved.