456898 - Cannot delete content from an <editor>'s document until I've added some content.

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[Christopher Finke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2) Gecko/20080829065003 Shiretoko/3.1a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2) Gecko/20080829065003 Shiretoko/3.1a2

Given a XUL <editor> that is initialized with a contentDocument that has some content that is editable, a user cannot delete content from that document until he has added some content.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install attached XPI (forthcoming).
2. Navigate to chrome://editor-bug/content/bug.xul  This page consists of an editor with an editable document loaded into it.
3. Place the cursor anywhere inside the editor.
4. Try to delete some of the text therein by pressing backspace, or by highlighting text and pressing delete.
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Words should be deleted.

The above steps work correctly if you insert a sub-step between 3 and 4:

3a. Press space.

For some reason, deleting only works after the document has been otherwise modified.

Comment 1

[Christopher Finke]

Attachment: An extension that allows the bug to be easily demonstrated.

Open chrome://editor-bug/content/bug.xul and try to delete the text there before typing anything.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Confirmed on Windows XP, latest trunk. Maybe related to bug 346523 in a way?

Comment 3

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

I've seen this for awhile in ScribeFire on OS X. I'll confirm it as well.

Comment 4

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

If you have reason to believe, this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.