327653 - cursor positioning wrong in empty lines of textarea

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 334256

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Niels]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 MultiZilla/1.8.1.0p SeaMonkey/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 MultiZilla/1.8.1.0p SeaMonkey/1.0

When setting the cursor position in textareas with .setSelectionRange() or .selectionStart to empty lines the cursor is positioned one character (= one line) behind the correct position.
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create textarea with empty lines
2. Try to set the cursor to the empty line with .setSelectionRange()
3. Cursor is positioned at the end of the previous line instead
4. In a block of empty lines the cursor is positioned in the previous line

Comment 1

[Niels]

Same problem in Firefox 1.5.0.1

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

can you attach a testcase?

Comment 3

[Niels]

Attachment: Testcase, move cursor through textarea with empty lines

Comment 4

[Uri Bernstein]

Same as bug 334256, now fixed on trunk.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 334256 ***