476829 - scrollLeft property on a single-line text box doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 293186

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Timwi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

As far as I can tell, scrollLeft always returns 0 for a simple <input type='text'>, and setting it to any value has no effect.

That makes it impossible to scroll such a textbox using JavaScript.

Interestingly, scrollWidth and scrollHeight return correct values.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
For a simple <input type='text'>, scrollLeft returns 0, assigning scrollLeft has no effect

Expected Results:  
scrollLeft returns current scroll position, assigning scrollLeft changes scroll position

Comment 1

[Jan Horak [:jhorak]]

Looks like a bug 293186. Please see the comments.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

in the absence of timwi response, trusting jhorak.