37373 - Triple click should highlight entire text field

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 15095

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

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

A really cool and nice feature in IE is the ability to trible click on the text 
in a text box a get everything selected. This I would love to see in Mozilla 
too.

Try this:
With IE go to http://www.yahoo.com
In the search text field enter: "This is a test"
Now start clicking in the text field just after the word test.
The first time you click the word test in selected, the next time the entire 
text field.

This is not possible in either NS nor Mozilla. In these only one word gets 
selected.

Comment 1

[Hugh Kennedy]

fixing summary and component.
looks like a dup of, or related to bug 32807, and/or bug 16311.

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

This is an editor issue; not sure that we'll implement entire text field for 
triple-click.  Current debate is line vs paragraph (mostly in bug #32807).

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

Actually, this is working fine in the editor and has been for months (I use it
every day on linux).  But the Windows event handler doesn't implement multiple
clicks greater than 2: see
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp#3232

There used to be a bug on this, but I can't find it (maybe it morphed into
something else).

Reassigning to joki, cc'ing Rods since I think he also used to be involved with
the Windows event system.

Comment 4

[Kathleen :Brade]

I found the bug akkana was referring to... dup


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15095 ***

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

verify dup