Closed Bug 268279 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

double-click to select word of text selects multiple words (across <span> tags)

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: peakle, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

run the .html file I include below.  Double-click the word "static" or "new" and
you will select multiple words in the text, rather than just one.  When the CSS
classes which these <span> tags refer to were included, the results were the
same, so I left those CSS class definitions out to simplify the example (they
just colored the text).  I can reproduce this on Mozilla 1.7.1, but bug does Not
occur on IE 6.0.  Text of HTML file that illustrates the problem:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
  <a class="ln" name="81">081&nbsp;</a><span
class="bg">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span
class="kw">private&nbsp;static&nbsp;</span><span
class="code">List&nbsp;clientAuthValues&nbsp;=&nbsp;</span><span
class="kw">new&nbsp;</span><span class="code">ArrayList</span><span
class="prn">()</span><span class="code">;</span>
</body>
</html>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. double-click certain words in pages that uses <span> tags.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
more than one word was selected (highlited) in the text.

Expected Results:  
Only one word should have been selected.
Apparently the fix was either too late or too scary for the 1.0 branch, but this
is already fixed on the Firefox trunk (and recent Seamonkey builds).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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