181432 - clicking selected image should clear selection

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 326500

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.google.com/.
2. Drag the logo, select some text on the page, or Select All.
3. Click on the logo, which is a non-link image.

Result: nothing happens.
Expected: the selection should go away.

I've been accidentally selecting images a lot lately, and I usually have to
clear the selection before I can see the image well again.  It's frustrating
that it takes two tries to clear the selection.  It's even more frustrating on
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-09-30&res=l because the space
above the comic, which looks like a good place to click to clear the selection,
is actually an image.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

This bug is very similiar to bug 174163.

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

resolving this as invalid
I don't think that clicking an image should clear the selection; that is
inconsistent (and confusing to users when they inadvertently double-click).  

If you want to clear the selection in the browser, use command-click (on
Macintosh) or control-click or click somewhere where there is no content (no
images, no text, etc).

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

> I don't think that clicking an image should clear the selection; that is
> inconsistent (and confusing to users when they inadvertently double-click). 

How would fixing this bug make Mozilla inconsistent, and with what?  Clicking on
text clears the selection.  Clicking on dead space, which often looks the same
as an image, clears the selection.  Clicking an image in IE, Netscape 4, or
Opera clears the selection.  Clicking an image that is not selected does not
cause it to become selected.

I don't understand your comment about double-clicking.  Where would a user be
clicking that an accidental double-click would make fixing this bug a problem?

Comment 4

[saari (gone)]

nominating EDITORBASE to discuss behavior

Comment 5

[John Coonrod]

This is very definitely a bug, and it ruins play in a number of javasscript
games. For example, try www.coonrod.net/games/freecell.html - every so often a
card will get reversed instead of moved, and then even when it moves, the
position stays selected, which is VERY odd. This worked fine with ie, opera and
mozilla 1 and 1.1 but since 1.2 it's broken.

Comment 6

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

+linux moz 2002-12-12, phoenix 2002-12-18

Comment 7

[saari (gone)]

EDITORBASE-, a little annoying, but not a huge problem. Plus it isn't strictly
an editor bug :-)

Comment 8

[Vaclav Dvorak]

This is opposite to bug 120776, but I think that this one is right.

Comment 9

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Bug 120776 is not exactly the opposite, if there is no anchor nor onclick
handling on the clicked image, the selection should be cleared.

Comment 10

[Eli Friedman]

I know it's not traditional to dup older to newer, but I don't really care.  There isn't anything useful here.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 326500 ***