692412 - Firefox 10.0a1 Nightly not recognizing the replace() javascript method (typeof document.getSelection() == object)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Sonny Razzano]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

String.prototype.trim = function() {
    return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
 }


Actual results:

Nothing


Expected results:

Trim leading and trailing spaces.

Comment 1

[j.j.]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111006 Firefox/10.0a1
This works for me:
" TEST ".replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "")

Comment 2

[Sonny Razzano]

" TEST ".replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "") works here as well but this does not:

window.addEventListener('mouseup', getMe, false);
function getMe() {
  var getText = document.getSelection();
  alert(getText);
  alert(getText.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, ""));
}

Comment 3

[j.j.]

Attachment: testcase

document.getSelection() returns "object" in Nightly 10 instead of "string"

Comment 4

[j.j.]

This is intended, see bug 636512

Comment 5

[j.j.]

Workaround:
 var getText = document.getSelection().toString();
or something

Comment 6

[Sonny Razzano]

Yes, toString() is the ticket. Thank you.

Comment 7

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Thanks, j.j.!