1877425 - In caret browsing mode, cannot move the caret from a absoluted positioned span to an other

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

Attachment: plop.html

STR:

• enable caret browsing mode;
• put the caret on the first span;
• hit the arrow down key.

It isn't possible to go to the next span in the DOM.

For the context, in the pdf viewer, there's an invisible text layer we use for example to select some text.
In order to make possible highlighting some text in using the keyboard we need to be able to navigate in the text layer with the keyboard.
But in this layer, all the text spans are absolute positioned (their coordinates correspond to what we've in the pdf itself).
FYI, it works correctly in Chrome.

Comment 1

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Calixte "manually" reimplemented caret browsing mode in pdf.js, so this is no longer necessary to fix bug 807730.

Comment 2

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

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:dao, could you have a look please?

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