862614 - [email] Search can highlight the ellipse instead of the correct character

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::E-Mail, defect)

Description

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

Attachment: screenshot

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## Environment :
Master build :2013-04-16-03-10-11
"mozilla-central" revision="1d9c510b3742"
"integration/gaia-central" revision="972f3504af31"
"gecko.git" revision="95bf443385bbd8ee611be1586ec975e609acd006"
"gaia.git" revision="d10e892eb6887967803a68e8c441a7c456446437"
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## Repro :
1. launch email w/ an account setup
2. have an email address that is so long that the ellipse may cover the letter and send to the account on the phone
3. do a search from with that character (in this case an @ symbol)

## Expected :
ellipse is not highlighted

## Actual :
ellipse is highlighted

## Note :
1. happens on master, v1 trian, v1.0.1
2. polish

Comment 1

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

(Notes for future investigation)

The spec calls for the ellipse to be styled per the block:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-ui/#text-overflow

Our block is currently "display: table-cell", so that might be complicating things.  In the example provided, it appears that the next character is the matching "@", so its owning span might be contributing some styling (right or wrong).  The obvious workaround besides losing the "table-cell" stuff would be to explicitly set a background on the containing block in case that clobbers the explicit style on the match.

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on