212674 - Dragging a link within the page no longer selects link text.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[John A.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030706
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030706

I just skipped from 1.0x to 1.4, so this may have appeared before now.

In 1.0x when I dragged a link to a spot within the page and dropped it where it
could do nothing (international "no" cursor) it would select the link text and I
could then easily copy it to the clipboard for other use. 1.4 does not select
the link text.

This was a handy way to select link text. As it is now, it is difficult to
select link text without selecting other characters around it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any page with links.
2. Drag a link and drop it when you have a "no" cursor.


Actual Results:  
The link has the focus outline, but the text is not selected. Attempting to copy
does nothing.

Expected Results:  
Link text should be selected.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

->Selection

Comment 2

[John A.]

Still occurs in 1.5rc1. (Have not tried later versions due to reported Windows
GDI bug regression.)

Comment 3

[Alex Eng]

Bug 50673 addresses the same issue, but proposes a different approach as to how
hyperlink text should be selected.  If you have additional comments to make
about the hyperlink text selection problem, please post your comments to that bug.

Resolving this bug as WONTFIX.