Bug 3154 – can't move cursor to start or end of single- or multiline text entry using d-pad

Bug 3154 - can't move cursor to start or end of single- or multiline text entry using d-pad


Summary:	can't move cursor to start or end of single- or multiline text entry using d-pad

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Product:	Browser
Component:	MicroB engine
Version:	4.0
Platform:	N810 Maemo

Importance:	Medium normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	microb-bugs

URL:	data:text/html,<textarea>hey</textare...
Keywords:

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Blocks:
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Reported:	2008-05-13 01:21 UTC by Johnathan
Modified:	2008-08-18 22:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Johnathan (reporter) 2008-05-13 01:21:42 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION:
(Control Panel > General > About product)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM:
On the N810, tap in a text area that already contains text on any website with
a submission form (the Bugzilla "new bug" description text area works for
this). using the d-pad, try to move the cursor to the spot before the first
character (on bugzilla, this would be right before the text "SOFTWARE VERSION".

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
should be able to move cursor to first position in text area.

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
the focus moves outside of the text area to another part of the form, making it
impossible to insert text at the start of a text area.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
(always/sometimes/once)
always

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED:

OTHER COMMENTS:

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-GB; rv:1.9a6pre)
Gecko/20071018 Firefox/3.0a1 Tablet browser 0.1.24
RX-34+RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.42-18

Comment 1 Eero Tamminen nokia

2008-05-15 15:39:22 UTC

> ACTUAL OUTCOME:
> the focus moves outside of the text area to another part of the form,
> making it impossible to insert text at the start of a text area.

Pretty annoying indeed.  With stylus it's fairly easy to do on normal
sized input fields though so it's not completely impossible...

(with d-pad it works if you first move the cursor to beginning of the field
which moves the focus to another field, then use d-pad to return the focus
back to the input field.  The browser remembers the cursor position in
the input field.)

Comment 2 tuukka.tolvanen nokia

2008-05-16 01:11:31 UTC

also of course to reproduce the problem there needs to be a focusable element
in the approximate direction the cursor is moved toward, or the cursor will
stay in the text entry as expected.

Comment 3 Tuukka Hastrup 2008-08-12 20:38:15 UTC

I can't reproduce this anymore, after upgrading to version 4.2008.30-2.

Comment 4 tuukka.tolvanen nokia

2008-08-18 22:58:39 UTC

yeah, seems to be working after the 4.2008.30-2 update.