298435 - Cannot select textboxes

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[orcaz_junk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The javascript that blocked the selecting of textboxes was actually to disable
selecting of text. However, when the javascript code executes on Mozilla
Firefox, it disables selecting of textboxes too. When I use IE, the code only
disables selecting of text. Selecting the textbox is still enabled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the web site
2. Go to the bottom of the page
3. Try selecting the textbox

Actual Results:  
Cannot select the textbox

Expected Results:  
Enable selecting of textbox

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

this is certainly not a security bug, clearing "sensitive" box.

I suspect this is invalid: the code on the page contains

//if NS6 
if (window.sidebar){ 
 document.onmousedown=disableselect 
 document.onclick=reEnable 
} 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Page no longer exists and as dveditz points out, this may have been invalid to
begin with.

-> INVALID