200296 - after adding an anchor tag, subsequent adjacent text should not form part of the anchor

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Sterling Bates]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

I'm submitting this since Midas is apparently conforming (largely) to IE 
standards, and IE behaves as described in the summary.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a link to editable document.  Append child textnode for description.
2. Place cursor to the right of added link.
3. Continue typing, or add (for example) an image node.

Actual Results:  
The adjacent text, image, etc, become associated with the link.  The text 
becomes part of the link description, while the image shows a hand cursor.

Expected Results:  
Subsequent adjacent text and other content should not be associated with the 
link.

Additionally, if the link is the only element of the document and the user 
deletes it, new text will retain the link association.  (I think this somewhat 
elevates the bug from trivial, but that's not my final call <g>.)

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Not layout.

Comment 2

[Joe Francis]

I believe this is a dupe of a selection bug Mike has?  

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->selection
Composer also has this problem; I think it's a duplicate bug (perhaps on
mjudge's plate?)