Bug 208310 – Web Inspector: Cursor Missing When Editing HTML

• Component: Web Inspector
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Chris Chiera]

Believe I posted about this a long while back but can't remember.

When editing code in HTML section of the inspector the cursor doesn't appear where you have clicked. It does show as expected when editing css in the styles bar however so bug only seems to affect the HTML section.

[Chris Chiera]

To add if you right click and choose "Edit HTML" to edit the html it does show the cursor. But double clicking which is what I always do to edit the htmt (except for links of course since that would open them), the cursor doesn't show.

[Chris Chiera]

Created attachment 391869 [details]
Missing Cursor

[Nikita Vasilyev]

This looks like a regression.

[Chris Chiera]

Thought I'd check-in on this. I see on "Feb 2: Nikita Vasilyev said, "This was fixed a couple of days ago." Alas I checked at that time, and every release since then the issue still remains. Let me know if you need any additional information.

[Nikita Vasilyev]

Confirming that I can still reproduce it.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/62867790>

[Chris Chiera]

Checking in on the status of this reported on 2020-02-27 as has continued since through each and every update including macOS 11 and the latest Safari Preview. Not seeing the cursor properly in the web inspector is certainly a major challenge and imagine it affects Apple developers as well so hopefully this regression will get resolved. Switched back to Chrome from development a while back since looked like a fix may be a while. Looking forward to getting back to Safari for use during development since use it for most all my browsing. While it sounds like you are aware of the issue, if I can provide any info to help escalate it let me know.

[Chris Chiera]

Just to note, as of this writing cursors are still missing when editing html in web inspector which I imagine is quite a common use case for web inspector. Let me know if you need any additional information to help this regression that was confirmed back in February. Thank you!

[Nikita Vasilyev]

I landed a patch for this yesterday! Please check in the next Safari Technology Previw!

Bug 210197 - REGRESSION (r251254): Web Inspector: Text insertion point is invisible when editing DOM nodes

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 210197 ***

[Chris Chiera]

Just downloaded the newest Preview that was released today as you recommended however I'm still not seeing a cursor when editing html in web inspector. I can try restarting my computer, but can you confirm the fix did land in the latest preview v113?

[Nikita Vasilyev]

I apologize for the confusion. My fix hasn't made it to Safari Technology Preview yet.  STP 113 covers WebKit revisions r265179-r265893. My fix landed in r266499. Please check the next STP.

[Chris Chiera]

Just to note, on Release 113 (Safari 14.0.1, WebKit 16610.2.3.1) on Big Sur, and this issue still does not appear to be resolved, even though it was noted it lands in Release 113. While this bug report was marked as a duplicate, the other bug report was reported months after this one, and in that one is says this issue is resolved. So just wanted to make sure the team it still working on resolving the missing cursor issue when editing html in web inspector. Thank you!

[Nikita Vasilyev]

Once again thank you for following up on this! You're correct. Unfortunately, r266499 isn't in STP 113 and I'm currently investigating why.

[Nikita Vasilyev]

Chris Chiera, I've checked the just released Safari Technology Preview 114, and the fix has finally landed! Please confirm.

[Chris Chiera]

Works, thank you!!