752987 - textbox text selection not highlighted if it was focused and disabled prior to selection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 303896

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

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

html:

<input type="text" id="box" value="some text">

js:

var box = document.getElementById('box');
box.focus();
box.disabled = true;
box.disabled = false;
box.select();



Actual results:

The text was selected, but it was not highlighted so it did not appear selected. 


Expected results:

The text should have appeared selected (should have been highlighted).

FWIW, a workaround is to blur the textbox before selection:

box.focus();
box.disabled = true;
box.disabled = false;
box.blur(); // makes it work
box.select();

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Might be worth pointing out that it works fine if the textbox was never disabled:

box.focus();
box.select();

works fine

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

I think this was introduced around Firefox 10

Comment 3

[Shamil Kerimov]

I can definitely confirm this bug in 19.0.2. Please fix