Bug 15695

Summary:

focusing a textarea moves input cursor to beginning of textarea instead of end

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Kevin Decker <kdecker>

Component:

Forms

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

Severity:

Normal

CC:

ahmad.saleem792, akeerthi, andri, ap, ddkilzer, karlcow, mkwst

Priority:

Version:

523.x (Safari 3)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.4

Attachments:

Description	Flags
test case	none

Kevin Decker

Reported 2007-10-25 16:33:34 PDT

In other browsers, modifying/focusing a textarea places the input cursor at the end of the textarea. Safari puts it at the beginning. * STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open the attached test case in Safari. * RESULTS Safari places the input cursor at the beginning of the textarea, instead of the end of the text area as Firefox does. <textarea id="test">Click the button below</textarea> <input type="button" value="Click me" onclick="document.getElementById('test').focus();">

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test case (146 bytes, text/html) 2007-10-25 16:34 PDT, Kevin Decker	no flags	Details
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Kevin Decker

Comment 1 2007-10-25 16:34:20 PDT

Created attachment 16867 [details] test case

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 2 2007-10-25 21:59:36 PDT

We match MSIE here. IIRC, we have tried to switch to Firefox behavior a while ago, but this has caused problems with Outlook Web Access.

David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)

Comment 3 2007-10-26 05:16:18 PDT

(In reply to comment #2) > We match MSIE here. IIRC, we have tried to switch to Firefox behavior a while > ago, but this has caused problems with Outlook Web Access. See Bug 11746, specifically Bug 11746 Comment #15 and Bug 11746 Comment #16.

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 4 2011-09-19 10:18:32 PDT

*** Bug 68322 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Ahmad Saleem

Comment 5 2023-05-25 14:38:20 PDT

All browsers (Safari 16.5, Chrome Canary 115 and Firefox Nightly 115) now place caret / cursor at the beginning / start rather than like previous behavior of Firefox to place it at end of sentence. Since Firefox changed here. Marking this as 'RESOLVED WONTFIX'.

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