268917 - Pasting a long string into a text field

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 271055

(Toolkit :: Form Manager, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

When I paste a long string into a text field (Longer than a text field's 
width...this box I'm typing in now is an example of one) instead of making the 
text wrap to the next line, it creates a horizontal scroll bar and keeps the 
string of text on one line.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Cut a string of long text from a document or txt file(must be longer than the 
width of text field from step 2)
2.Paste that string into a text field
3.Horizontal scroll bar appears, text does not wrap to next line. 

Actual Results:  
Text appeared in text field on one line, creating a horizontal scroll bar for 
the text field.

Expected Results:  
text should stay contained in the width of the text field and wrap to the next 
line.

Thanks for the great browser, I love the tabs feature and it's a big 
improvement over IE! Although trying to update a website through my site's 
admin page, is difficult when I cut and paste text into a text field.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

For me, Firefox soft-wraps but does not hard-wrap text in textareas.  So I paste
a long string that doesn't contain spaces, I get a horizontal scrollbar instead
of wrapping.  Do you see the same behavior?

Comment 2

[Stanislav Nikolov]

It happens on Linux too. And yes, it does "soft-wrapping" but no
"hard-wrapping". I hope this issue will be adressed.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 271055 ***