[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 187848] New: [GTK] Cursor movement with anchors styled display: inline-block; word-break: normal; broken

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187848

            Bug ID: 187848
           Summary: [GTK] Cursor movement with anchors styled display:
                    inline-block; word-break: normal; broken
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Other
          Hardware: Unspecified
                OS: Unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Gtk
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: mcrha at redhat.com
                CC: bugs-noreply at webkitgtk.org

Created attachment 345437

  --> https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=345437&action=review

a.html

Open the attached HTML file in the MiniBrowser with the editor mode on:

   $ /usr/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0/MiniBrowser --editor-mode a.html

Then use arrows to move the cursor within the text, specifically:

I) holding the Arrow-Down stops at the start of the anchor of the second paragraph and doesn't move further.

II) when have cursor at the place of I), press Arrow-Right 5 times; then:
II-a) press Home key, the cursor moves at the beginning of the anchor; press the Home the second time, then it moves to the line beginning;
II-b) press Arrow-Up, the cursor moves to the right, not up; pressing Arrow-Up again doesn't move the cursor, but pressing Arrow-Left three times and then Arrow-Up moves cursor to the right again, to a different position.

The anchors is styled as:

  a {
     display: inline-block; 
     word-break: normal; 
  }

which obviously confuses WebKitGTK+. The idea is to not wrap anchors, even they are inside a div styled as:

  style="width: 71ch;"

I didn't find any better trick to stop wrapping of the anchors. I didn't feel to split the DOM structure, because it can be a deep tree of elements.

If you have any better suggestion for a workaround of this WebKitGTK+ bug, then I'll be happy to change the code for the time being. Downstream bug:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/issues/71

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