51783 - Hard to place insertion point where there isn't text

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51747

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

- edit a bug (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000)
- in the comment area, type

1
2
3
4

- click somewhere to the right of "2", say 2 inches away, in open space

Expected results:
- cursor is "i-bar"
- insertion point flases after "2"
- typing puts text after "2"

Actual results:
- cursor is a pointer, indicating you're not in a text area
- insertion point doesn't move after the click, so you don't know you it did
anything
- luckily, typing does put text after "2", but you'd never know it from the
visual feedback

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

not dogfood, but makes using text fields very difficult. They just feel like
they don't work at all.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Dup of 51747, which is now fixed. Repull nsCaret.cpp/h and try again


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51747 ***

Comment 3

[Greg Lincoln]

This is a dup of bug 51747:Caret doesn't render at the end of line.

Comment 4

[Michael Lefevre]

fixing null OS field on old bugs