62490 - Text selection weird when table cells use align="justify"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58704

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

Description

[Stephen Moehle]

If a table cell has the attribute align="justify", text selection does not work
correctly.   It is not possible to select a range of characters on any but the
first line.  On lines 2..n, it seems that it is only possible to select the
entire line.  If the align="justify" attribute is removed, text selection works
the way I would expect, and I can select a range of characters on any of the lines.

To reproduce:
1) Load the attached html page.
2) Try to select a range of characters such as "Dubya" on the first line.  It
works as expected.
3) Try to select a range of characters such as "Friday" on the second line.
Nothing is selected, but if you drag the mouse downwards, the entire line
becomes selected.

Tested with Mozilla 120808 on Linux.

Comment 1

[Stephen Moehle]

Attachment: HTML page demoing text selection bug

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

wfm on Windows; doron, do you see this on linux?

Comment 3

[Keyser Sose]

Verified
Platform: PC
OS: Linux 2.2.16
Mozilla Build: 2000121908 M18 Trunk Build

Marking as NEW

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

setting to moz0.9.1 and reassign to anthonyd

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

move to mozilla0.9.2

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

moving this out to 1.0

Comment 7

[Alex Stewart]

I highly suspect that this is a dup of bug 58704 - cannot select anything
smaller than lines in justified text.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58704 ***

Comment 8

[rubydoo123]

catching up on verifications