578771 - Contenteditable element breaks word selection on all other input elements of the page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Mathieu Dumais-Savard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.99 Safari/533.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100714 Minefield/4.0b2pre

As soon as a contenteditable is present on any given page, the behaviour of all other input or textarea of the page is altered in regards to "word selection by double clicking"

usually, double-clicking a word in a box would select that word.

Please look at the provided URL for a basic test-case expressing this bug.

This bug had been found in firefox 3.6.6 for Mac/Window and Minefield 4.0b2pre so I suspect it's core and affecting all versions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit a page that has at least one contenteditable=true div
2. try selecting a word in an input by double clicking on it.
Actual Results:  
the word can't be selected by double or triple clicking wether the field has focus or not.

Expected Results:  
the word or parts of it should be selected by double-clicking.

default theme, please visit http://www.mathieusavard.info/bug/a.html for the basic test case.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: testcase from the url

Comment 2

[Graeme McCutcheon [:graememcc]]

I have a patch in the works for bug 686203 - not quite ready for Bugzilla yet - that should fix this too.

Comment 3

[Graeme McCutcheon [:graememcc]]

Attachment: Test

Testcase. Fails in a tree without the patch from bug 686203. Passes with 686203 landed.

Comment 4

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Test

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Looks great, thanks!

Comment 5

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https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/febef520842e

Comment 6

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https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/febef520842e