Closed Bug 4222 Opened 26 years ago Closed 25 years ago

Page scrolls back to cursor position instead of following link

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P3)

All
Linux
defect

Tracking

()

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: chadh, Assigned: mjudge)

Details

If you set the cursor within a page by clicking normal text, then scroll away (using the scroll bar) such that the cursor is no longer in view, clicking a hyperlink causes the page to scroll back so that the cursor is in view. The link is not traversed, although it does change to the "visited" color. This only happens if the cursor isn't in view. Links on the same "screen" as the cursor work fine. To reproduce: 1. Visit any page longer than one screen 2. Click once within some normal text to set the cursor 3. Scroll down the page using the scroll bar so the cursor isn't in view 4. Click on a link -- you should jump back so the cursor is visible Tested using viewer and apprunner from M3 build. Same behaviour with both. Red Hat Linux 5.1 (2.0.36 kernel) on Pentium 166 with 64 MB RAM and Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (ViRGE chipset, 2 MB). Window Maker 0.51.2 and XFree86 3.3.3.1 SVGA server.
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Page scrolls back to cursor position → Page scrolls back to cursor position instead of following link
neato bug...very reproducible. Does the same thing on MacMonkey (Mar26) as well. Changed summary.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
i will reverify myself i think pixley and i fixed this for m6
Did a quick test with Linux binary dated 1999-04-30-08. Seems to be fixed.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
yeah works fine for me on MacMonkey too. I'm gonna mark it VERIFIED FIXED for Mac 1999043009 and Linux1999043009 per chadh's comments, thanx.
Per a request from Selection and Search component eng (mjudge) and qa (elig), moving all "Selection and Search" bugs to new "Selection" component. Original "Selection and Search" component will be retired.
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