Text selection disappears when open dialogs

[syn4k]

Every single time I select some text, it becomes unlselected when using the paragraph formatting dropdown, changing text to a link, etc.

Firefox 3.6.17, 3.6.18 on CKEditor version: 3.54. CKEditor 3.5.4 (revision 6899)

Here is a demo showing you how link button is breaking: ​http://screencast.com/t/lvyePQDI9A

Here is a demo showing you how the paragraph formatting dropdown is breaking: ​http://screencast.com/t/wBo3O7aoj

You will see this is an exact replica of the issue here: ​http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/5780. I was told to create a new ticket for this issue.

[Jakub Ś]

I think I will be needing more information on this one because I was not able to reproduce it.

1. What operating system are you using?
2. Have you tested this problem in default sample of CKEditor or you have used your configuration settings? If so, what settings have you used?
3. Does it occur in clean version of CKEditor or in integration with Java, PHP etc.

4.What doctype, if any, are you using on your HTML page?

Any sample files that will help us to reproduce the issue are welcome.

[syn4k]

Test (index.php)

[syn4k]

I have attached a testing script which uses the CKEditor 3.6.1 library and jQuery 1.4.2.

To my knowledge, this happens on all operating systems. The settings and the doctype are all included in the attachment.

After working on this, I have a strong hunch this has to do with the popup behavior of the application I built.

[syn4k]

Shadowbox example

[syn4k]

This is also broken when using Shadowbox. You can see this using the second attachment I created. This to me, rules out the possibility that the popup behavior is the problem since Shadowbox does not create popups.

[Jakub Ś]

@syn4k Thank you for the sample it was very helpful.

I have modified a little bit the file provided and it seems that the line 48 of text-editor.html file is causing the problem.

$('#cke_contents_editor1').css('overflow', 'hidden');

With this setting text gets unselected in Firefox all versions (3.6 - 5) and in IE all versions (6-9). Issue is reproducible from CKE 3.0.

[syn4k]

@j.swiderski, Thank you for identifying this!