Firefox: Cursor is misaligned on centered text with placeholder
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- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 202
- Forks
- 43
- PR merge metrics
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Description
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Open the reproduction at https://w3c.github.io/editing/repros/501.html in Firefox and inspect the centered text with its placeholder. Compare the cursor position with the expected behavior shown by the repro and identify the relevant editing or browser behavior. Done means the cursor is correctly aligned in Firefox without regressing the reproduction.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100