1156887 - get selection on table cell in editable area doesn't work properly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1169238

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Description

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

bug description from AT vendor:

I am trying to find where a selection starts in a table cell in an edit field (such as tinymce) (again for selected text inside the cell).

What I am finding is that calling:

hr = accText->get_selection( 0, &nStart, &nEnd );

on any cell in the table that contains text is returning the entire text of that cell regardless of whether or not the content of the cell is selected.

Comment 1

[alexander :surkov (:asurkov)]

(for the record) I'm not 100% sure whether this is not accessibility API bug, I didn't check myself, but since we don't do any special for tables in a11y then it's unlikely a11y problem.

Comment 2

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, >=5 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.