206873 - paste of a string does not replace the selected content

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Kaj Kandler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030522
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030522

If I have a form field with some text already filled in and select a part or
all, a paste (from another app) does not replace the selected text. instead it
appends it at the end. mail.yahoo.com is only an example.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Goto an address record in the Yahoo Mail application
2. fill in some text
3. select all or parts of the text
4. Paste some different string "over" the selction

Actual Results:  
The text gets appended, the selection is ignored.

Expected Results:  
The selected text in a text field should be replaced by what ever I paste.

It looks like this is not pervasive. I jus ttried the same trick in this form or
the Browser URL field (which showed strange selection-paste behavior soem
earlier release as well) and could not reproduce it there. So it might have to
do with some specifics of the Yahoo page.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Kaj, I can't reproduce this with a newer Mozilla 1.7 trunk build on WinXP. Can
you still reproduce this with a newer Mozilla build like Mozilla 1.6?

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

worksforme with 2004041603 windows 1.7 branch build