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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 406218
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2017
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Setting CSS properties on "p:first-letter" breaks text selection

Reported by runem...@gmail.com, Mar 19 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3043.0 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2016/06/live-and-let-live-inside-free-republic-liberland

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open URL/example file
2. Select some text

What is the expected behavior?
The text that's under the cursor is selected.

What went wrong?
Text a few characters further is selected.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 59.0.3043.0  Channel: dev
OS Version: 6.3
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 25.0 r0

Adding some spaces before the text in the <p> tag makes the offset much larger. The property can be any property, such as "color: black"
 
example.htm
288 bytes View Download
Components: -Blink Blink>Editing>Selection
Confirmed, text selection is offset. Tested on Mac Chrome 56.
Mergedinto: 406218
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)

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