1883609 - Highlighting an inserted text field will make it unclickable after saving

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P1)

Description

[Dana Lucaci, Desktop QA]

Attachment: Screen Recording 2024-03-05 at 12.56.56.mov

Found in

• Beta 124.0b7 (2024-03-04)

Affected versions

• Nightly 125.0a1 (2024-03-04)
• Beta 124.0b7
• Release 123

Tested platforms

• Affected platforms: All

Steps to reproduce

1. Open any PDF which has a text field in Firefox (eg: http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf).
2. Add text in any one of the fields.
3. Enable the Highlight tool.
4. Free Highlight the added text.
5. Save the PDF and reopen it in Firefox.
6. Click inside the highlighted field and try to add some text.

Expected result

• The text can be added successfully, without any issue.

Actual result

• Highlighting the field will add a layer which won't let the user to click behind it.

Regression range

• Not a regression.

Additional notes

• If the field is entirely highlighted, saved and then reopened that will make impossible for the user to add text to that field.

Comment 1

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

Interactive elements like the form ones must always have a z-index greater than the non-interactive annotations.
It behaves like this in Acrobat.

Comment 2

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] [Annotations] Widget annotations must be in front of the other ones (bug 1883609) (#17776)

Comment 3

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in our latest Nightly build ID 20240307095557.

Comment 4

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

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:calixte, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
• If no, please set status-firefox124 to wontfix.

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Comment 6

[Rares Doghi, Desktop QA]

Updating the main status flag.