294334 - It should be possible to shift-select a range of checkboxes

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 149528

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050219 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050219 Firefox/1.0

It should be possible for the user to select a range of textboxes by
selecting one checkbox in a range of checkboxes and  shift clicking on
another checkbox in the list, this would cause all the checkboxes in
between the two to be automatically checked by the browser.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the attached testcase
2. Select the first checkbox
3. Select the fourth checkbox while holding in the shift key

Actual Results:  
Checkboxes 2-3 remain unchecked.

Expected Results:  
Checkboxes 2-3 should have been automatically filled in.

Comment 1

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

Attachment: A testcase for comment #0

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

It's against all GUI guidelines, but ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149528 ***