Closed Bug 208598 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Double-clicking on the first letter of a wo and previous wordsrd selects current

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 200098

People

(Reporter: david_costanzo, Assigned: mjudge)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

Double-clicking on a word of text normal highlights (or selects) the word
(whitespace delimited).  However, if you double-click on the first letter of a
word, it highlights the current word and the previous word.

While this could a strange "by-design" feature, it seems unintuitive.  Also, if
you double-click on the first letter of a paragraph, nothing is selected, which
makes me think it's just a vanilla bug, instead of a power-user feature.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.View an HTML page with text.
2.Double-click on the first letter of a word within the text.
3.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla highlights/selects the word _and_ the previous word.

Expected Results:  
Only select the word that was double-clicked (ignore the previous word)
Confirming on WinXP 2003060409.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200098 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: Double-clicking on the first letter of a word selects current and previous words → Double-clicking on the first letter of a wo and previous wordsrd selects current
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