36343 - getSelection() is still not implemented/checked-in

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 32481

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

Description

[Chris B. Sears]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13-7mdk i686)
BuildID:    m15

getSelection() is a Javascript function which gets a
copy of the selected text from a document window.

getwindow.content.document.getSelection();

I've sent mail to Johnny Stenback who has written getSelection()
and sent me a patch.  But he hasn't checked it in yet.
Please check it in.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. selection some text from a browser window
2. execute this Javascript
	var ds = window.content.document.getSelection();
3. display ds

Actual Results:  returns a null string.

Expected Results:  return the selected text.

This really is a blocker for me.  I'm writing a XUL package which depends on
getSelection().

It is an action menu.  A user selects some text, and the selects an action from
a menu.  The XUL menu description then executes an item specific Javascript
code.  For example,

	select the text "please"
	select Dictionary Lookup
	XUL calls Javascript which constructs a lookup URL
	page gets loaded and voila, a dictionary lookup of "please"

Without getSelection, I have to hack in static test strings.  And I can't
integrate this into Aphrodite.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

duplicate


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 32481 ***

Comment 2

[Eli Goldberg]

Verified as duplicate.