Bug 17993 – REGRESSION (r31081): Clicking in wordpress editor causes strange behavior and de-selection

• Status: NEW
• Component: Forms

[Kevin Ballard]

In WordPress 2.3.3 with the visual editor turned off, clicking in the main text area causes weird behavior including the following: selection moved back to start of text area, text area deselected, text area selected but painting as if deselected, and keypresses or clicks ignored. This behavior continues until you select a range of text and start typing, at which point it seems to behave like a normal textarea again.

Editing the wp-admin.css file to comment out the following rule:

#postdivrich #content, #postdivrich #content:active {
	border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

seems to make this behavior stop. However, using that rule in a simple test page does not trigger this behavior.

This is a regression, as Safari 3.1 and earlier nightly builds with Safari 3.0 did not exhibit this behavior.

[Kevin Ballard]

Created attachment 19939 [details]
Cached wp-admin page demonstrating this problem

[Dave Hyatt]

Yes, I ran into this while trying to post new blog entries.  i had to go back to 3.1. :(

[Adam Roben (:aroben)]

<rdar://problem/5813692>

[Adele Peterson]

looks like this broke somewhere between 31071 and 31093.  I'll try to narrow it down more.

[Adele Peterson]

between 31078 and 31081...

[Adele Peterson]

http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/31080 is editing related, and
http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/31081 is text control related.  Could be either...

[Adele Peterson]

I've confirmed its r31081.

[Adele Peterson]

hmm- i should've started on a reduction sooner.  The test case no longer works.

[Adele Peterson]

I have a setup of Wordpress 2.3.3 now, but I still can't reproduce.  We may have to close this one out.

[Robert Blaut]

(In reply to comment #9)
> I have a setup of Wordpress 2.3.3 now, but I still can't reproduce.  We may
> have to close this one out.
> 

So why it isn't still closed?