Bug 31581 - Text area selection with keyboard sometimes expand (shift+page down/arrow up)
Summary: Text area selection with keyboard sometimes expand (shift+page down/arrow up)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKitGTK (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: PC OS X 10.5
: P2 Normal
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Reported: 2009-11-17 05:10 PST by Ole Laursen
Modified: 2017-03-11 10:56 PST (History)
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Description Ole Laursen 2009-11-17 05:10:08 PST
To reproduce, make some lines in a text area (more than one page) and hit Shift + Page Down on the second line followed by Shift + Arrow up. I expect this to diminish my selection so I have one page selected minus the bottom-most line. Epiphany and Midori instead expands the selection by adding a line at the top.

I'm not sure whether this is just a bug or intended behaviour, in the latter case, please reconsider as it is the opposite of every other text area I've ever tried. :) And it is pretty annoying, e.g. when writing Gmail, it quotes the original email in full. So I use shift+page down a couple of times to select most of the quote, then shift+up arrow to fine tune it. I have not yet discovered how to work around that.