503399 - caret in contentEditable area with text-align:justify doesn't match position

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[timeless]

steps:
1. load test url
2. click into the first <p>
3. press and hold <right-arrow> while watching the caret
4. press <tab>
5. press and hold <right-arrow> while watching the caret

expected results:
caret should always be at the beginning/end of a letter for steps 3 and 5

actual results:
caret in 5 ends up in the middle of the character before where it should be, in the middle of the character before which it should be, and in the middle of the character after the character before which it should be placed.

(originally encountered @docs.google.com with an imported word document.)

Comment 1

[timeless]

useless note: this also happens on Camino (Gecko 1.9) OS X 10.5.7 (x86_64)

Comment 2

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Attachment: fix

Comment 3

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Comment on attachment 388179 [details] [diff] [review]
fix

test?

Comment 4

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Do we have a way to get the caret position coordinates?

Comment 5

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

Huh, probably not :(

Comment 6

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Bug 396392 would help testing here.
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f6de98d8c2ff

Comment 8

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Attachment: reftest.diff

Comment 9

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Pushed the reftest:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/581778538b67

Comment 10

[Phograph]

Bug 442847, bug 452266 and bug 511620 should be flagged as duplicates of this bug.