561691 - When body -moz-user-select is "none", setting MozUserSelect to "text" for a child node doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 203291

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[luxigo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100424 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.5pre) Gecko/20100424 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.5pre

The contentEditable childNode content still cannot be selected

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set body.MozUserSelect to "none"
2. set childNode[n].contentEditable to"true"
3. set childNode[n].MozUserSelect to "text"
Actual Results:  
You can add content to childNode[n] but cannot select text nor move the insertion cursor.

Expected Results:  
Content should be selectable and insertion cursor should be movable

Works with chrome

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This might be the intended behavior; I'm not sure.

Comment 2

[luxigo]

Be coherent... When body.style.backgroundColor is set, i can change a child node style.backgroundColor... 

On the other hand it works with webkit when setting body.webkitUserSelect to "none" and setting webkitUserSelect to "text" for a child node.

Sure I could also set backgroundColor to "blue" for every individual element of the page, then set it to "yellow" for the elements i want in yellow.. 

Thats what i should do with MozUserSelect so that my database management application with thousands of elements be Firefox compatible, but we will just use Chrome waiting for the bugfix)

I want MozUserSelect="text" only for contentEditable="true" elements.

Additional comment: I can move the insertion cursor, but only with keys, not with mouse.

Comment 3

[kodierer]

Behaviour still exists in FF10. I agree with luxigo that this is not expected behaviour and leads to having to write way more complicated css rules in certain cases. Webkit does it "right", btw ;) I added a testcase file.

Comment 4

[kodierer]

Attachment: unselectable child node