80452 - can't highlight entire text in some INPUT and TEXTAREA tags

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80048

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[Jason Belcher]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
BuildID:    2001051104

In some cases, when the cursor is at the end of the text in an input tag, or 
end of a line in a textarea, pressing SHIFT+HOME or drag-selecting to the start 
will highlight all the text apart from the first character

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page with default text in a textarea or text input field
   (the resource:///res/samples/test8.html works)
2. Place the cursor (or insertation point at the end of the field or 
   line (on the above page, the second line in the textarea containing
   the text "another textarea size,font set by css" reproduces the 
   bug for me)
3. Press SHIFT+HOME or drag-select to the start of the line

Actual Results:  All except the first letter of the line is selected

Expected Results:  The whole line should have been selected

The easy workaround is to simply press SHIFT+LEFT after selecting everything. 
It is, however, annoying.

Comment 1

[Junk_HbJ]

Also seeing this with 2001051120 / Win98SE.

Comment 2

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

dupe of bug 80048, if selectability of first character depends on whether it is
one of b c f g j k n o r s v w z 2 3 6 7 § " # & / ? + £ { [ ~ ^ * ' ö ë > _ : . ;

Comment 3

[James Lariviere]

Agreed.  Marking dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80048 ***

Comment 4

[Scott Tran (Wildcard)]

Verified Dupe