If I am entering text into a textarea and click past the end of a line of text, the cursor is raised slightly. It behaves correctly, but is weird looking. When I begin to type, the cursor returns to its normal position. However, if I type a single character, then press Backspace, the cusor returns to its raised position. I don't see this if I type multiple characters and backspace through all of them.

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End-of-line caret bug, known issue.

This same bug seems to be causing two other strange behaviors. First, if I am in a TEXTAREA and have text selected elsewhere, when I middle-click past the end of line to paste it, it pastes incorrectly, sometimes going down to the next line, sometimes jumping up and pasting there (!) Second, if I start hilighting multiple lines from an area past the end of a line (with the raised caret), overtype works incorrectly, only overtyping the first line and leaving the other lines hilighted.

Reproduced in build 2000102008, Mac OS 9.0 --> All/All. Note that it only happens at the end of a hard line break, not a soft (wrapped) line break.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53610 ***

verified in 10/30 build