Bug 121266 - KHTML: Select All (ctrl-a) within a select box (list) selects all surrounding text on the page instead of the select contents
Summary: KHTML: Select All (ctrl-a) within a select box (list) selects all surrounding...
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: konqueror
Classification: Applications
Component: khtml forms (show other bugs)
Version: 4.9.3
Platform: Compiled Sources All
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konqueror Developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2006-02-03 04:42 UTC by Christopher Layne
Modified: 2021-07-12 11:10 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Screenshot of example behaviour (107.79 KB, image/png)
2007-11-02 23:33 UTC, Christopher Layne
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Description Christopher Layne 2006-02-03 04:42:00 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc 4.0.2 
OS:                Solaris

What this means is:

1. We have a select box with multiple items defined.
2. We change focus to one of the items in the select box and issue a select all
command.
3. Result: Konqueror selects all text on the page.

This is unintuitive and should select all of the select list elements instead.

What's funny is that the only other browser that seems to do it in an intuitive fashion is Opera. Even IE, FireFox, and Mozilla select all standard text elements on the rendered page instead of the select list elements.

It's very easy to duplicate. Open any bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org) query page, move mouse to an element within "Status" and select all. Result: Not what you expected.
Comment 1 Marijn Schouten 2006-04-18 14:38:26 UTC
the query page is http://bugs.kde.org/query.cgi

described behaviour confirmed on 3.5.2. Moreover strange things happen when you try to select a heading such as "Status and Severity". It's not easy to select it!
Comment 2 lexual 2006-10-19 10:57:24 UTC
confirmed for 3.5.5
I have experienced this behaviour myself.
Comment 3 Christopher Layne 2007-11-02 23:33:52 UTC
Created attachment 21985 [details]
Screenshot of example behaviour

Duplicated by: ctrl-a while selection is within "severity" list.
Comment 4 Christophe Marin 2008-04-06 19:22:02 UTC
Your wish has been granted in KDE4 (SVN build. kdelibs rev. 793966) : selecting a element then pressing control-A actually select all elements.

Comment 5 FiNeX 2008-05-05 01:25:53 UTC
I can confirm which it is working correctly on trunk (r802881).
Bug closed.
Comment 6 Marijn Schouten 2009-08-24 19:44:41 UTC
Bug (such as it is) still exists in 4.3.0 (and also in firefox-3.5.2).
Comment 7 Christopher Layne 2010-01-29 21:35:28 UTC
This is still not fixed. Go to http://bugs.kde.org, choose advanced search, select an area with multiple selectable entries (like bug status) and hit ctrl-a.
Comment 8 Christopher Layne 2010-01-29 21:37:15 UTC
Also, my last comment was in reference to Konqueror 4.3.3 under KDE 4.3.3
Comment 9 groot 2021-07-12 11:10:38 UTC
This KHTML bug still exists in kf5-khtml-5.83.0 ; it's not Solaris-specific. (To see it, though, you need to set Konqueror to use KHTML as renderer, which isn't the default I don't think).