218644 - Cursor in text entry field not repositioned correctly when clicking to the very left of the box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 153766

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Paul Scowcroft]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827

this mainly causes hassle when im trying to do a search at google, but applies
to any text entry boxes (you can test it in any of the ones at the top of this page)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter some text in a field
2. Move the mouse pointer as far to the left of the field as you can without it
turning back from a cursor pointer to an arrow pointer
3. Left click

Actual Results:  
Usually the cursor will remain at the end of the string of text you just entered
With longer text fields it might move to a position in the middle on the line of
text

Expected Results:  
Move the cursor to the front of the text field

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153766 ***