268490 - Hidden text should be made visible from the left when text is deleted

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

(Spawned off from bug 265940.)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1. Go to a page with a single-line text input and type more text into it than
   fits into the viewable area. Conceptually, you should have something
   like this:
            +------------------------+
word1 word2 | word3 word4 word5 word6|
            +------------------------+
2. Select a chunk of text at the end of the text field and type Backspace,

ACTUAL RESULTS:
            +------------------------+
word1 word2 | word3 word4            |
            +------------------------+

EXPECTED RESULTS:
            +------------------------+
            |word1 word2 word3 word4 |
            +------------------------+
that is, right end of the selection span should remain fixed rather
than the left. (The same problem occurs when deleting text in the
middle). The bug also occurs in the URL bar.

FWIW, see Opera 7.54 on Linux for correct behaviour.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 268352 ***

Comment 2

[Volker Moell]

(In reply to comment #1)
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 268352 ***

I think it's rather a dublicate of bug #268490 as of #268352.  See bug #268352
comment #6.

Comment 3

[Volker Moell]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> I think it's rather a dublicate of bug #268490 as of #268352.  See bug #268352
> comment #6.

I correct myself:
I think it's not a complete duplicate of bug #268352. See bug #268352 comment #6.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

This is clearly not a duplicate of bug 268352.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Mats, I'm pretty sure this is a duplicate (though you're right, it's not a dup
of bug 268352).  The original is probably in editor somewhere...

Comment 6

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This is worksforme with current trunk build and with a 1.8 Seamonkey build of 2006-09-05. I can see the bug in Mozilla1.7, though.
Mark it WORKSFORME?

Comment 7

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

-> WORKSFORME