701010 - Disabled Text Box - Unable To Select/Highlight Text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195361

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrew]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

Attempted to select text in a disabled text box such as the one here: http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_INPUT_DISABLED.html


Actual results:

Unable to select or copy text.


Expected results:

Text should highlight.

Comment 1

[Andrew]

I don't think this is a duplicate bug - sorry if it is. I found many similar reports, but none referring to this specific issue.

Comment 2

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0a1) Gecko/20111109 Firefox/11.0a1

Also, could you see if the issue occurs if using Firefox in safe mode:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty testing profile? (Don't install any addons into it)
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

Attachment: test html

Confirmed on 
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6d42793c4807
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0a1) Gecko/20111109 Firefox/11.0a1 ID:20111109031111

Cannot copy:
  Opera11.52
  Firefox3.6.24 - 11.0a1

Can copy:
  Google Chrome15.0.874.106m
  Internet Explorer9(However, selection is broken in textarea )

Comment 4

[Andrew]

I can confirm on 8.0 both in safe mode and with a new empty profile.

Comment 5

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

I can reproduce this based on comment3 and comment4. Setting the resolution to NEW

Comment 6

[Dave]

This issue still exists in Firefox 29.0. Text inputs and textareas with the disabled attribute do not allow me to select text within them. Internet Explorer and Chrome do allow me to select the text. Clicking on the element and pressing Ctrl+A also does nothing because the element is unfocusable.