[IE, Webkit] can not delete selected text in table contents

[yiminghe]

1.open ckeditor at trunk in ie (ie6 or native ie8) and switch to source mode 2.input the following source:

<table border="0" style="width: 100%" title="tbdescguide">
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p>
					&nbsp;士大夫士大夫都</p>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p>
					12345678</p>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

3. switch to wysiwyg mode and select text "12345678" or "2345678" or "5678" using mouse (here you can note :user's selection is changed automatically , for details you should see pics in the attachment )

4. press backspace button

expect :

selected text removed

actual result:

selected text still remains ,but selection gone and cursor goes to the start position of the original selection.

PS: you can not ctrl-x or ctrl-v for that selected text too, maybe the selection is broken when it is changed automatically in step 3 .

PS2: tinymce has the same problem , maybe it's a stubborn bug for ie not for editor.

[yiminghe]

user's selection

[yiminghe]

selection is changed automatically ( empty space after '8' )

[Jakub Ś]

There seem to be two issues with the above code.

In IE8
E.g. select 123^45678^ and press backspace. Text won't get deleted and cursor will end up at the beginning of the selection. 123^45678

In IE6 and IE7
E.g. Click inside 123^45678 and select 123^45678 ^ but don't stop right after 8. Go a little bit farther. You will see that whole td content gets selected ^12345678 ^.
NOTE: When whole text gets selected and you are still holding left mouse button, move the cursor to the left and then to the right again - the selection will get fixed.

Both issues have been reproducible from CKEditor 3.0.

[ComputecWebDev]

This bug is also reproducible in current Webkit browsers!

Chrome 17.0.963.56 m and Safari 5.1.2 both have these issues in CKEditor 3.6.2. Tried both also in WinXP and Win7, same problems.

FF10.02, Opera 11.60, IE9 - working as expected.

Strange thing is: This is only an issue with text that is inside a table's <td>. (Partial) text outside of tables can be deleted without any issues!

The text inside of a <td> doesn't even have to have formatting like in the example above, just type text and there you have it.

[Alvaro]

In IE9 if you click on start of string e.g. ^12345678 then press shift-end you cannot delete the selected text.

Another issue: if you duplicate the table, insert a blank line in first row of second table and do the same procedure above selecting on first table. IE, Chrome and Safari remove the entire second table.

<table border="0" style="width: 100%;" title="tbdescguide">
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p>
					&nbsp;士大夫士大夫都</p>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p>
					12345678</p>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
<table border="0" style="width: 100%;" title="tbdescguide">
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p>
					&nbsp;</p>
				<p>
					士大夫士大夫都</p>
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>
				<p>
					12345678</p>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>
<p>
	&nbsp;</p>