[IE] The selection expands by some characters when eg. creating a link

[Tuomas Salo]

It seems that under some very specific circumstances IE9 and IE10 expand the selection by a character or two.

How to reproduce:

• go to ​http://venko.net/naapuri/tyo/ck-selection/ (use IE9 or IE10)
• double click the long word in the editor
• press Ctrl+L (or click the link button on the toolbar)
• press ESC (or create a link)

Expected result:

• the long word (and the trailing space) is still selected, and nothing else

Actual result:

• the selection is expanded by two characters, so now "doubleclickthis fo" is selected.

This bug can also be reproduced on the CKEditor demo page, by pasting the same code to the editor source view:

<table><tr><td><p><b>foo<br/><a
href="#">baz</a>
</b>qux</p><p><br/> fred<br/>
doubleclickthis foo <a href="#">fred</a>
foo<br/> bar<br/> baz<br/> qux<br/>
foo<br/> bar<br/><b>baz</b><br/>
&nbsp;</p></td></tr></table><p>
&nbsp;</p>

Apologies for the long test case. It seemed that if I change anything, the bug doesn't show up. Gotta love IE. <3

Note that this bug also appears if you right-click on the text and then push ESC, so it's not only connected to the hyperlink dialog.

[Tuomas Salo]

Also happens after 3.6.5, tested on rev 7657 (try here: ​http://venko.net/naapuri/tyo/ck-selection/nightly/).

[Jakub Ś]

Can be reproduced in IE9, IE10, in CKEditor 3.x and 4.x.

It has first occurred in CKEditor 3.5.1 rev. [6337] - selection was moved by 1 character to the right.

In CKEditor 3.5.3 selection was moved by 2 characters to the right

In CKEditor 3.5.4 rev. [6740] selection instead of being moved it has started extending 2 characters to the right

[Jakub Ś]

I have checked latest CKEditor 4.5.10 and problem doesn't occur there anymore. I'm closing this one as fixed.