Closed Bug 203964 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Very long lines of text in text boxes with no wrapping causes text to become invisible

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Editor
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

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()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 237085

People

(Reporter: ajhoskinguk, Assigned: mozeditor)

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(2 files)

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10.00 KB, image/png
Details
Demonstrates invisible text in text box, when value > 4095 chars long
8.27 KB, text/html
Details 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

If you write a very long peice of text with no spaces when you get to somthing
like a thousand characters the text dissapears 

Steps to reproduce

1 find a text box with no wrapping
2 write some terx in it with no spaces
3 it eventually disapears
.
Assignee: form-submission → jfrancis
Component: Form Submission → Editor: Core
QA Contact: ashishbhatt → sairuh
Summary: Long very lines of text in text boxes with no wrapping causes text to become invisable → Long very lines of text in text boxes with no wrapping causes text to become invisable
No you misunderstand this is not in the editor this is in webpages i will upload
a screen shot i took from deviantart.com.

OH I did also write a page just with a form in it and this bug came up again.
Attached image Screenshot — 
Screenshot, with clever graphics because i was board
Summary: Long very lines of text in text boxes with no wrapping causes text to become invisable → Very long lines of text in text boxes with no wrapping causes text to become invisable
Any idea, if any  body else gets this?
Alex, 

This looks trivial to me if, in fact, it only occurs when you type thousands of
characters without a space.  We have hundreds of bugs that are worse than this one.

If I understand your screenshot, in a standard textarea box that would normally
wrap on a space, if you type text with no spaces the text eventually disappears.
Selecting some if it (with mouse, etc.) makes it reappear.  I was able to
reproduce it, but it happened at about 4095 characters in a single line.  That
doesn't seem like an unreasonable limitation to me.

BTW, Interesting to see that the UK educational system is capable of producing
grads with as bad grammar and spelling as the US.
Severity: normal → trivial
Has anybody managed to reproduce this?
Summary: Very long lines of text in text boxes with no wrapping causes text to become invisable → Very long lines of text in text boxes with no wrapping causes text to become invisible
I can reproduce this bug in Mozilla 1.7b 20040305 and Firefox 20040305 0.8.0+

If the value in the text box exceeds 4095 consecutive non-whitespace
characters, it isn't shown.

Try out the attachment and please let me know if this is the same problem.

Note that View->Page Source renders the long text invisible (at least on Mac OS
X. I haven't tested Windows yet, see bug 235344). So if you wish to confirm the
presence of the X characters in the code, try loading the attachment in a
different browser, or just copy the page source and paste it in a text editor
and the text should reappear.
*** Bug 237155 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 237085 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Severity: trivial → major
Flags: blocking1.7?
OS: Windows XP → All

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237085 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
*** Bug 237224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 237166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
v
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Flags: blocking1.7?
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