29476 - selecting text in a table should act more like selecting a spreadsheet

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 29393

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Description

[xkahn]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; N; Linux 2.2.14 i686; en-US) Mozilla/m14
BuildID:    2000022709

Take a look at http://www.dmoz.com/ in kfm (or StarOffice) .  Select some text
in the category section.  Select rows or columns or both.  Now, try it in
mozilla, you can only select in columns.  Mozilla should emulate kfm here.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a page with a table (www.dmoz.com is good)
2. Select a row of text
3. Try it in kfm.
4. Bask in kfm's superior selection system


Actual Results:  Mozilla just selects a column or partial columns.  It should
treat the table as if it were a spreadsheet.

Expected Results:  Treat the table as a spreadsheet.  You should be able to
select AREAs of the table.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

dup; cc yourself on the other bug if you want to track this feature


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26831 ***

Comment 2

[xkahn]

I don't believe that table border higlights are the same thing.  A table looks
like this:

+-------------+--------------+
|    Spot one |  Spot two    |
+-------------+--------------+
|    Spot 3   |  Spot 4      |
+-------------+--------------+

Currently, in Mozilla, you can select 1, 3, 2, 4; 1, 3, 2; 1, 3; 1; 3, 2, 4; 
3, 2; 3; 2, 4; 2; 4.
In KFM and StarOffice, you can select 1, 3, 2, 4; 1, 3; 1, 2; 3, 4; 2, 4; 1; 2;
3; 4

	This selection method is more useful because table data is most often (for uses
I have seen) accessed in this way.  I'm sorry my previous explaination was
unclear.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29393 ***

Comment 4

[Eli Goldberg]

Verified as duplicate. Thanks!