16943 - Empty edit control's cursor position

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16905

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

Description

[Michael Lowe]

The thing that annoys me MOST with the edit controls (besides their current slow
speed), is than in EMPTY edit controls you are able to position the cursor in
one of two positions (in the far left of the control, and in a position one
'phantom' character to the right of this).   You can move the cursor back and
forth between these two positions with the cursor keys, or by clicking on the
far right of the edit control you can move the cursor the right of the phantom
character (see attached picture).   The correct behaviour of empty edit control
should only allow the cursor to be positioned in the far left of the control.
There should be no phantom character.

Comment 1

[Michael Lowe]

Attachment: Screenshot

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

change to platform/os all.
reassign to jfrancis

Comment 3

[Joe Francis]

dup of 16905; we have an nbsp in empty editors in order to have some content to
draw a caret with.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16905 ***

Comment 4

[sujay]

verified in 10/29 build.