466382 - Turing on/off "contenteditable" discards the selection

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Tuom Larsen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

After enabling or disabling "contenteditable" on a div ("contenteditable" = "true|false"), the actual selection gets discarded, i.e. deselects.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. <div "contenteditable"="false">
2. make a selection
3. <div "contenteditable"="true">

Actual Results:  
The selection disappears.

Expected Results:  
The selection should stay untouched.

Comment 1

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Attachment: testcase

This is WFM on Win Vista: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

Comment 2

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

> This is WFM on Win Vista: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US;
> rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

Actually only one way: false->true loses selection, true->false retains selection.

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)(sickish, maybe slower respose)]

probably, same cause with bug 563865.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.