IE9/IE10 - No visual indication that a table is selected

[Teresa Monahan]

To reproduce:

• Insert a table in the editor in IE9/IE10
• Click on table in the elements path bar to select the table

Problem: There is no visual indication that the table is selected.

Note that if you use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V the table is copied and pasted, so it is actually selected. However the user is not aware of this.

In IE8, browser handles are displayed when the table is selected.

This stopped working in IE9/IE10 with ​git:396c4f0 where w3c DOM APIs were enabled for IE>9 so I am not sure if this is an IE issue or not. Either way it would be good to be able to give the user some visual indication that the table is selected in these browsers.

[Satya Minnekanti]

same issue happens when user selects a row or cell in a table by clicking on tr or td in the elements pathbar

[Jakub Ś]

This is how IE works when there is no data in table. You can't select table or row when there is no data in it.

[Teresa Monahan]

Replying to j.swiderski:

This is how IE works when there is no data in table. You can't select table or row when there is no data in it.

@j.swiderski - There is a visual indication that an empty table is selected in IE9/10 using CKEditor 3.6.x. You can see this at ​http://rev.ckeditor.com/ckeditor/trunk/7695/_samples/replacebyclass.html. Browser handles are displayed around the table.

[Jakub Ś]

@tmonahan at first i thought that this is because config.disableNativeTableHandles is set to true by default but setting this option to false has no effect.
It turned out this isn't the only problem with native resize in IE and Firefox: #9317, #10252, #10197.

Your ticket seems to be a duplicate of #9317.

[Piotrek Koszuliński]

I think that this ticket has been incorrectly closed as #9317's duplicate. It's rather a part of a general issue #12123.

[Jakub Ś]

Yes you are right - this issue is part of #12123 and was closed incorrectly.

[Jakub Ś]

Problem can be reproduced from CKEditor 4.0.