403081 - content of disabled form fields cannot be selected (and context menu is not available)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 253870

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Norbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.5-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20061023 SUSE/2.0.0.5-1.1 Firefox/2.0.0.5

Hi!

Please open the attached html-file. It contains a disabled form field. It is impossible to select the text in order to be able to copy it in to clipboard.

In IE the text can be selected, and the context menu is accessible.

Both should be fixed for Firefox.

This seems to be a general gecko problem, since diabled edit fields cannot be selected in Nvu/KomopoZer and with Firefox' DOM-Insopector. The latter is Bug 257623.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Norbert]

Attachment: html file with disabled form field