Closed Bug 36408 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

highlighting text in view source does not highlight last character

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 33464

People

(Reporter: m.faassen, Assigned: mjudge)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug,
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Details

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) BuildID: 2000041811 When you view source on any url (for instance www.mozilla.org), you can't highlight the last character (usually a '>', as in '</html>'), if you highlight more text. You can occasionally highlight it by itself. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: View source on any web page. Actual Results: It's possible to select other text (though it's slow..), but not the last character. It's also possible to select it by itself, sometimes. Expected Results: Select all the text you want.
selection bug
Assignee: chofmann → mjudge
Component: other → Selection
QA Contact: leger → elig
Target Milestone: --- → M16
repro on 2000041908, confirming
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Hardware: PC → All
2000-042709 M16 Linux highlighting text in view source does not highlight beyond FIRST character if first character selected is < Only the < gets highlighted and it seems everything freezes for about 5 minutes. Separate bug?
This looks like yet another DUP of bug 12460, "Cannot select or edit generated content", by way of bug 18453, "Non-alphanumeric characters not highlighted in view-source". FWIW, selection in the View Source window appears to be working absolutely correctly using the 2000-05-02-15-M16 nightly binary on WinNT. I say "appears" because it's still not possible to copy from the View Source window (bug 26593). so verifying that the selection actually happens isn't possible.
2000-050509 still not possible to copy beyond the first < in <HTML etc. Under Linux it *does* copy - automatically on selection. However, it's impossible to paste it to third party editors - getting: Transferable didn't support data flavor text/unicode (type = 31) This occurs even if selection is only letters. It may be related to 18453 but not a dupe - i can select all non alphanumeric i see really. Just not all at once. However, if i select from line one and it starts with <DOCTYPE... then all *does* get selected apart from the last >
setting dependency on 12460
Depends on: 12460
Target Milestone: M16 → M17
*** Bug 42477 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this sounds like a dup of bug 33464... what d'y'all think?
looks like it, although I think 33464 might be a dup of 12460 (from reading some of the comments there). I find it unbelievable that 12460 was marked as an RFE because of a terrible workaround, but not my call... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33464 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
*SPAM*: Changing the QA contact of all open/resolved Selection bugs from elig@netscape.com to BlakeR1234@aol.com. After the many great years of service Eli has given to Mozilla, it's time for him to move on; he has accepted a position at Eazel. We'll be sad to see him go, and I'll do my best to fill his spot...
QA Contact: elig → BlakeR1234
vrfy dup
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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