139416 - getselection() does not work inside input fields

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 85686

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Thomas Forster]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

Javascript method getselection() does not work inside input fiels (tested with
textarea and type='text').

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. load url with example
2. select text in the textarea

Actual Results:  nothing happens

Expected Results:  selected text should be displayed in right input field (works
with Internet Explorer)

This Javascript-function is used:

function showselected()
  {
   if (window.getSelection) show = window.getSelection(); // for Netscape 6
(doesn't work)
   else if (document.getSelection) show = document.getSelection(); // for
Netscape 4 (doesn't work)
        else if (document.selection) show =
document.selection.createRange().text; // for IE (works)
document.getElementById("text").value = show;
  }

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Duplicate of bug 85686?

Comment 2

[Marcus Campbell]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 85686 ***

Comment 3

[Phil Schwartau]

Verified Duplicate.

Thomas, thank you for this report; you have been cc'ed on the other bug -

Comment 4

[Thomas Forster]

Attachment: Test Case