RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12606 18272
Selection marks more than its span boundary because of outer <div> width and inner <div> positioning 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18272
Summary Selection marks more than its span boundary because of outer <div> width and ...
jasneet
Reported 2008-04-01 18:34:01 PDT
I Steps: Go to http://english.usvishakh.net/blog/ II Issue: Select the text of the blog article. Selection marks more than user intends to do. III Conclusion: The outer <div> (which has a class=post-container) that contains the text has a width of 100%. Since the navigation on left (i.e. Fun, Jokes, etc) is positioned inside of that <div>, the left navigation text also gets selected when the contents of the post-container <div> is selected. See the 1st case in the attached reduction. In the 2nd testcase(attached reduction), I reduced the width of post-container <div> to 85% so the <div> that contains the left navigation is not enclosed in it. This works in Safari IV Other browsers: IE7: ok FF3: ok Opera9.24: ok V Nightly tested: 31446
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2008-04-01 18:34 PDT, jasneet 		no flags
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2008-04-01 18:34 PDT, jasneet 		no flags
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2008-06-24 21:45 PDT, David K. Dean 		no flags
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2008-06-25 08:59 PDT, David K. Dean 		no flags
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2008-06-26 13:39 PDT, David K. Dean 		no flags
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jasneet
Comment 1 2008-04-01 18:34:18 PDT
Created attachment 20285 [details] screenshot
jasneet
Comment 2 2008-04-01 18:34:44 PDT
Created attachment 20286 [details] reduction
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 3 2008-06-16 12:54:16 PDT
Confirmed. Also happens when selecting text in <http://webkit.org/blog/>.
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 4 2008-06-16 12:57:38 PDT
<rdar://problem/6012355>
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 5 2008-06-16 12:59:29 PDT
Note that selection works as expected in Firefox 2.0.0.x.
David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)
Comment 6 2008-06-16 13:03:05 PDT
I changed the version field back to 420+ since this bug reproduces on Safari 2.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 with its original WebKit. Thus it is not a regression.
David K. Dean
Comment 7 2008-06-24 13:28:17 PDT
This also happens on http://daringfireball.net and and http://macrumors.com.
David K. Dean
Comment 8 2008-06-24 21:45:32 PDT
Created attachment 21922 [details] screenshot Screenshot from daringfireball.net showing text selection problem.
David K. Dean
Comment 9 2008-06-25 08:59:53 PDT
Created attachment 21931 [details] screenshot 1 more screenshot showing slightly different behavior on www.macrumors.com. This is from Safari for Windows 3.1.2.
David K. Dean
Comment 10 2008-06-25 09:03:00 PDT
This problem happens in both Safari 3.1.1 for Mac OS X and Safari 3.1.x for Windows XP. Firefox 3 (for both Mac OS X or Windows XP) nor Camino 1.6.1 have this issue. They both properly select only the text and the selection stays within the <div> you are trying to select.
David K. Dean
Comment 11 2008-06-26 13:39:05 PDT
Created attachment 21960 [details] screenshot
Frances Cornwall
Comment 12 2024-08-13 16:56:09 PDT
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12606 ***
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