Bug 6451 – REGRESSION: After Find, selected text sometimes includes preceding img element

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: Layout and Rendering

[John Sullivan]

This is also in Radar as: <rdar://problem/4402375> REGRESSION (417.8 - TOT): finding text sometimes 
also selects previous image

In certain cases, after performing a Find, the resulting selection highlights both the found text and a 
preceding image element. This did not happen on the last released version of WebKit/Safari.

I'll attach a test case with steps that are appropriate to that test case momentarily.

[John Sullivan]

Created attachment 5570 [details]
A few test cases that show this bug.

To reproduce with this test page:
1. Load the test page
2. Command-F in Safari to bring up Find UI
3. Type "Throw" and hit Return to find first instance of Throw

Note that the text "Throw" has the selection highlight, and the image right
before the text also has the selection highlight. If you search for more
instances with Find Next (command-G) the same thing occurs for the other test
cases.

[John Sullivan]

From <rdar://problem/4402375>:

This bug does not occur in Safari-417.8, so it's a regression in TOT. The bug is probably in 
KWQKHTMLPart::findString, perhaps in this line:

    setSelection(SelectionController(resultRange.get(), DOWNSTREAM, VP_UPSTREAM_IF_POSSIBLE));

[John Sullivan]

It's possible that I introduced this bug at some point since I did some work in findString a while back, but I 
suspect that the regression is instead caused by some other change, perhaps editing-related.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Mitz points out that this looks very similar to bug 5127, and I agree.

[John Sullivan]

Yep, it seems extremely likely that this is the same as 5127 (and thus not directly related to findString).

[Alice Liu]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5127 ***