1345227 - "select" events incorrectly fire when setting selectionStart/End on a text control with an editor

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1677253

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Testcase:

  <input>
  <script>
    var i = document.querySelector("input");
    i.focus();
    i.addEventListener("select", () => console.log("FAIL"));
    i.selectionStart = i.selectionStart;
  </script>

this logs "FAIL" but should not.  See the XXX comment in nsTextEditorState::SetSelectionRange about preserving the current behavior, which is wrong...

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Might be easier to do after bug 1345228.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]](vacation until Nov 16)]

Note, there is also the recent spec change, bug 1342605

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ah, I think I was looking at the spec post that change.  So this might be a duplicate of bug 1342605, effectively.  My patches in bug 1345228 fix this for cases when the editor is not initialized.