Closed Bug 1283912 Opened 8 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Setting textarea via value should reset undo state

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Editor
Version:
45 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1358025

People

(Reporter: aaron.nance, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start with a HTML document with a simple textarea element, something like this: <textarea id="ta"></textarea>
2. Set the value of the using JavaScript, like so document.getELementById( "ta" ).value = "Hi THere";
3. Click in the textarea and press Ctrl-Z (Undo)


Actual results:

The text is undone. 


Expected results:

The text should not be undone after being set via JavaScript. This would be consistent with the behavior in all the other browsers.
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Component: Untriaged → Editor
Product: Firefox → Core
Priority: -- → P3
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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