188495 - could not get a selection object from a input or textarea element

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Cristiano Duarte]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

You can't get a selection object from a selected text inside a input or textarea
element, only from a selection outside these elements.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select any text inside a input(text) or textarea element
2. When you try to execute the following javascript code the selection object
returned is empty(no range objects):
sel = window.getSelection();
3. Maybe it's because you can select a text outside the input or textarea
element AND AT THE SAME PAGE select a text inside the element.
4. Javascript reports only the selection outside the element, never the inside one.
Actual Results:  
yes

Expected Results:  
return the selection object that represents the selected text inside the input
or textarea element.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

kin, didn't you guys fix this recently?

Comment 2

[kinmoz]

The fix bzbarsky is referring to is in bug 88049.

The selection  inside a text widget is different from  the window/document
selection. To access it, use |selectionStart| and |selectionEnd|:

  var selStart = myTextArea.selectionStart;
  var selEnd   = myTextArea.SelectionEnd;

Both |selectionStart| and |selectionEnd| are offsets between the characters in
the  text widget, so if  you had a text widget that contained the string "abcd",
and you wanted to select "bc" you would use:

  myTextArea.selectionStart = 1;
  myTextArea.selectionEnd   = 3;

or use:

  myTextArea.setSelectionRange(1,3);

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So... is this bug valid?

Comment 4

[kinmoz]

Yeah, it's invalid.