81417 - can't select first letter of word in certain instances

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80048

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[jkng]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010516
BuildID:    2001051620

Higlighting  text from left to right sometimes will not highlight the first
letter of a word. Usually this occurs when selecting at the beginning of a line
although it also occurs when selecting in the middle of  a line of text as well.
You can still select all the text if you select from right to left. Also, (in
form text fields) on those lines where you have trouble selecting the first
letter  hitting the "home" key will not bring you to the beginning of the line.
Instead, the cursor will go after the first letter.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Highlight text from left to right starting at the beginning of a line. 
(For example, go to http://www.mozillazine.org/. Try selecting the lines that
begin "James Russell has..." or "rewrite, imglib2,...". )


Actual Results:  The first letter is unselected.

Expected Results:  All highlighted text should be selected.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

dup

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

Comment 2

[Terri Preston]

Verified Duplicate