377305 - window.getSelection().focusNode is not specific enough

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 336936

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

Description

[chris eidhof]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

When I have a form-element with three inputs, and I ask for the window.getSelection().focusNode, it is not specific enough. It always returns the form-node, where it should return the input-elements

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a page with a <form> and some <input>'s in the form
2. Add window.onload javascript with an event-handler that logs the window.getSelection().focusNode on every keyup
Actual Results:  
Notice that the logged node is always the form-node

Expected Results:  
The logged node should be the specific input-node

Comment 1

[chris eidhof]

Attachment: A demo-testcase of the problem

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

Bug 336936 has some interesting information about why this doesn't work and how it might work in the future. This post may be of some help, too: http://www.squarefree.com/2006/05/06/finding-the-textarea-selection/.