92482 - Insert caret shows misplaced filling full height of page

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Alfonso Martinez]

Going to the above url, place the cursor in any of the text fields so the insert
text caret appears, as it is supposed to be. 

Now scroll down to almost the end of the bug. There's a point (around the
2001-07-19 19:48 message), so that from there on, a vertical caret appears
filling the height of the page.

Last build tested is 2001072603

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

I would suspect this to be a dupe of 86476 -- one of the ubercaret bugs that
jfrancis had

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86476 ***

Comment 2

[sujay]

verified.

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

After 86476 has been fixed this bug still exist, so I suppose that it was dupped
wrongly. Reopening it.

Comment 4

[sujay]

-- brade.

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->jfranics

Comment 6

[Alfonso Martinez]

Still present with 2001100103. 
Marking as New

Comment 7

[Joe Francis]

If all you do to get this is scroll, it's not me.  Over to kin for reassment.  
Umm, I mean reassessment.

Comment 8

[kinmoz]

I can't reproduce this with my 10/02/01 Mozilla build.

Alfonso - please reopen this bug if you can reproduce this in a more recent build.

Comment 9

[sujay]

marking verified. Alfonso REOPEN if you still see a problem. Provide
full test case with reproducible steps.

Comment 10

[Alfonso Martinez]

Reopening. This problem exists for me with both build 10/02/03 and 10/03/03.
Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77675
2. place cursor in some input box, for example QA Contact, after [e-mail]
3. Cursor is blinking there. Everything is fine.
4. With the mouse, drag the thumb of the scroll bar to reach the end of the page.

and now for me, a big caret is blinking over the page. I'll add a screenshot
right now. Note that the horizontal position of the line is the same that had
the caret in the input box above the page. If you leave the cursor blinking in
another input then the horizontal position of the blinking line at the bottom of
the page will move to the new position. 

Comment 11

[Alfonso Martinez]

Attachment: Screenshot while the fake caret is shown

Comment 12

[kinmoz]

Yup that sure looks strange. I can't reproduce this bug worth beans. :-)

Sujay - You running Win98? Can you give it a try?

Alfonso - Is the entire thing blinking? Or is it just a solid line?

Comment 13

[Alfonso Martinez]

The vertical line blinks like a caret, with the same rythm. The rest of the page
doesn't show any other problem.
As I said in the first message the line only appear after a certain distance
from the real caret (if I initially place the cursor in other input, then the
line will start a little lower in the document). Maybe I'm saying something
stupid, but this could be related to some kind of overflow with 32bits integers
(just an idea, but I don't think that this could happen in a multiplataform
project like Mozilla)

And I also didn't comment that changing screen resolution to 1024x768 shows the
bug at the same place, and if I click on the page while the line is showing it
dissapears (as well as the caret inside the input box due to the lost focus)

Comment 14

[sujay]

I see the problem. its very easy to reproduce....this bug does
not need any further explaining...

Comment 15

[sujay]

this happens only on Win98. on Win NT it does not happen.

Comment 16

[kinmoz]

--> mjudge (selection)

Comment 17

[mjudge]

not sure who should look at these any more with the editor group gone and all.

Comment 18

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=3 years untouched DOM/Storage bug's priority.

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