163491 - control+up and control+down don't mimic control+home and control+end functionality, respectively

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Joshua Prowse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; Joshua Michael Prowse; AIRF; Hot Lingo 2.0; .NET CLR 1.0.2914)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722

In a <textarea>, pressing control+up and control+down should mimic the 
functionality of control+home and control+end.  Internet Explorer for Windows 
and Opera6 for Windows both do this right.  Here is a textarea so that you can 
confirm the bug yourself: http://www.htmlref.com/examples/chapter11/textarea.htm

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View <textarea> that has more than few lines on content
2.Place caret in middle of said <textarea>
3.Press ctrl+up or ctrl+down
Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Caret should be at start or end of the textarea.

Comment 1

[Terri Preston]

I see this using win XP branch build 2002081412, marking new

Comment 2

[rods (gone)]

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Comment 3

[Carine Held]

reproduced in 12/16/02 Trunk build, win XP

Comment 4

[John Keiser (jkeiser)]

Not sure if it is Editor or Selection that handles these things ...

Comment 5

[kinmoz]

--> mjudge (selection navigation)

Comment 6

[Joshua Prowse]

Reproduced in the 2004 builds.  

Comment 7

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Moving to p3 because no activity for at least 1 year(s).
See https://github.com/mozilla/bug-handling/blob/master/policy/triage-bugzilla.md#how-do-you-triage for more information