id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
6359	IE selectable area in blank wysiwyg editor is very small	Jude Allred		"1. use IE9  (also applies in IE 7/8)

2. Go to ckeditor.com/demo

3. click 'New Page'

4. click outside of the wysiwyg text editor (so as to lose focus)

5. click inside of the wysiwyg text editor (so as to regain focus)

[Expected] clicking anywhere within the white editing area will focus the editor.

[Actual]  The clickfield to accomplish the expected result is very small - only the area shown in the attached image.  Clicking anywhere outside of that area will focus the editor's containing element and will not permit editing.  The available clickfield is dependant on the amount of content within the editor, however it's always possible to click on a 'dead zone' and lose focus. (E.g., go to ckeditor.com/demo and click to the left of the word ""tells"" below the picture of Little Red Riding Hood.)

Other details which may or may not be useful:

We had implemented a workaround for this which relies on IE7's [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536632.aspx moveToPoint] and was able to fix the vast majority of IE's quirks that cause this problem. Unfortunately, IE9's implementation of moveToPoint differs, and so our workaround is gone.  A slight improvement is to detect the failure case and simply focus the editor (which at least makes creating a new article in IE9 feasible), however there are a lot of edge cases which that fails to cover (dragging a selection in and out of the dead zone, etc.)"	Bug	closed	Normal	CKEditor 3.6.3	General	3.0	worksforme	IE Discussion