86656 - (Text Wrap?) Cursor problems in UBB Message Form

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, defect)

Description

[dan.m]

I'm not sure if I chose the right component or if this bug has anything to do
with 60159, but whenever I use UBB systems with Mozilla the same two problems
occur. First as I type within the main text entry field, if I use the arrow keys
to move about the text, it randomly moves to the wrong places. Example, I could
hit the up arrow (to move to the word immediately above the cursors current
location) and the cursor will jump up a line and left or right  as well. Or it
may go up two lines instead of one. Where the cursor goes is pretty random, all
I can say is it doesn't behave the way one expects.

(The item below might be a Form Submission Bug I guess. It's minor so I didn't
want to write a separate report....)

Also, once you have posted your message, there might be some kind of
cookie-based problem with Mozilla, because it returns you to the original thread
rather than the refreshed page (with your post added to the thread at the
bottom). You have to hit "refresh" to see what you've posted or read what others
posted while you were writing.

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

Yes, it's the wrong component.  Reassigning to html form controls.

Comment 2

[dan.m]

Thanks. A further clarification: this seems to happen only when moving the
cursor around in the current paragraph. If I move the cursor up to a previous
paragraph that has been separated by "carriage returns" and use the arrow keys
it works OK. But when using them in the current paragraph, that's when the
cursor seems to jump to the wrong spot. Maybe it has something to do with
carriage returns as they relate to text wrapping?

Also, I notice that selecting text is also a problem when working for the last
word of the current paragraph. If I try to select all the text working backwards
from the last letter of the last word, up to say the middle of the next line up,
the highlight color seems to jump around as well, rather than  selecting the
text you'd expect.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Reporter, which page, specifically does this occur on, the Post New Topic or Reply pages? 
I just tried those in Mac/2001071903 and in the "Message:" TEXTAREA I'm able to move 
the cursor around just fine with the arrow keys. Of course, if the line being moved to is 
shorter than the one you were on, then Mozilla puts the I-beam horizontally as close as it 
can; if you then move again to yet another line that is at least as long as the first, then the 
I-beam returns to the original horizontal position before the move began. This is the 
expected behavior of the text cursor I-beam and as such would not be a bug in and of 
itself.

At the very least, please retest in a newer nightly and, since the site you mention is a CGI, 
attach the HTML page you're observing the behavior in.

Since it works for me at this point, I'm going to mark the bug as such. If you still observe 
the behavior, feel free to reopen and attach the HTML of the page so we can triage and 
reduce to a testcase.

Comment 4

[jerone]

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