1742153 - selectstart event does not fire for Select All command

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Devon Govett]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load https://codepen.io/devongovett/pen/MWvxreN
2. Focus the content editable element
3. Press Ctrl/Cmd + A or use the Select All command in the Edit menu

Actual results:

The text is selected, and a selectstart event is not fired (nothing is logged in the console).

Expected results:

The selectstart event should be fired. Selection should be prevented due to the preventDefault in the selectstart event. This behavior is consistent on Chrome and Safari.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Selection' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.