Bug 20363

Summary:

Odd selection behavior when right clicking a link

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Gavin Sherlock <gsherloc>

Component:

HTML Editing

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

NEW

Severity:

Normal

CC:

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

OS X 10.5

URL:

http://www.nature.com/news/index.html

See Also:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270738

Attachments:

Description	Flags
screenshot showing problem	none
partial reduction	none
further reduction	none
better reduction	none

Gavin Sherlock

Reported 2008-08-12 15:29:48 PDT

Steps to reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.nature.com/news/index.html 2. Under the "More Stories" section, right click on some of the links lower down the list Expected results: A contextual menu should pop up Actual Results: The menu pops up, but a large part of the page also gets selected. In release Safari (3.1.2) more of the page gets selected than in the latest nightly (r35666), but it is still an odd effect. Note, this page changes on a daily basis, so I'm not sure whether this bug will always reproduce when going to that page. Tested on 10.5.4 on a MacPro

Attachments
screenshot showing problem (782.25 KB, image/png) 2008-08-12 15:31 PDT, Gavin Sherlock	no flags	Details
partial reduction (1.06 KB, text/html) 2008-08-13 09:25 PDT, Gavin Sherlock	no flags	Details
further reduction (519 bytes, text/html) 2008-08-13 09:31 PDT, Gavin Sherlock	no flags	Details
better reduction (488 bytes, text/html) 2008-08-14 07:47 PDT, Gavin Sherlock	no flags	Details
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Gavin Sherlock

Comment 1 2008-08-12 15:31:33 PDT

Created attachment 22757 [details] screenshot showing problem This was after right-clicking on the "Ten diseases in a dish" link, using r35666.

Gavin Sherlock

Comment 2 2008-08-13 09:25:58 PDT

Created attachment 22775 [details] partial reduction As close as I could get to a reduction. Top link shows the behavior, bottom one doesn't. <span class="hidden"> seems to cause the problem

Gavin Sherlock

Comment 3 2008-08-13 09:31:37 PDT

Created attachment 22776 [details] further reduction

Gavin Sherlock

Comment 4 2008-08-14 07:47:19 PDT

Created attachment 22792 [details] better reduction This doesn't rely on any external resources

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 5 2009-02-09 08:28:45 PST

Confirmed with r40778.

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