165667 - Removing text from end of textbox should scroll remaining text into view

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P4)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Type a bunch of gibberish into a HTML form textbox.
2. Press backspace to delete the last character, or select the last few words 
and delete them.

Expected: the textbox should scroll left to make the remaining text visible.
Result: nothing scrolls, so even if there's enough room to display the 
remaining text, it is not displayed completely.

Works in IE 6.0 on Win XP, broken in Mozilla 082608.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 45214 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Er, shouldn't you have dupped this bug to the older one?

Comment 3

[Andreas Lange]

Could reporter or someone else close this bug? It should have been duped
earlier, but I think it was duped in the wrong direction...

Anyway, testing with Moz 1.4.1 this works as expected.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

I still see this bug in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a)
Gecko/20030923 Firebird/0.7+.

Comment 5

[Andreas Lange]

You are absolutely correct. I mixed this summary up with the other similar bugs.

I've finally figured out where the scrolling takes place for textboxes. I'll see
if I can come up with a patch shortly...

This applies to all platforms, not only XP.

Comment 6

[Deanna Earley]

This appears to affect the current sunbird as well (20050203)
See bug 286861

Comment 7

[Andreas Lange]

WFM, tested in Mozilla 1.8b2.
Also ok in 1.8b1 per comments in bug 286861. Fixed sometime during 1.8
development that is.

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050630 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

Still happens for paste+undo (see bug 427172).