781037 - Caret isn't visible when it's at the beginning of a span of highlighted text

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P5)

Description

[Jagdish Patel]

Attachment: Highlight.htm

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

1) Load the page attached to this bug
2) Click to place an IP at the start of the text
3) Press right arrow until you get between "one" and "two"



Actual results:

The cursor disappears when IP move between "One" and "two"



Expected results:

Cursor should not disappear

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

confirming with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14a1

Comment 2

[crazyskeggy]

Noticed that this only happens when coming from the left (the un-highlighted bit). Clicking with the cursor on the left side also works, but if the cursor is on the right side, clicking keeps it in place.

I am running this on Windows XP Professional SP3 32-bit on Firefox 15.0 beta.

Comment 3

[Loic]

I don't really understand the interest of placing an IP in your STR. If I'm right, just click on the start of the text, then move the cursor from left to right (with the right arrow). Before the word "two", cursor disappears.

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

I assume that Jagdish used "IP" as short for "insertion point".  Caret is a better known term for this.

Did this use to work in older Firefox versions?

Comment 5

[Loic]

Ok, thanks for the clarification. ^^
I tested with various versions from 2009 to 2012 (with mozreg), same buggy result.

Comment 6

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority and severity.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong, please write a comment and ni :jstutte.