895510 - execCommand("createLink") with no selection does not insert a text

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect)

Description

[Charles]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

An example site
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/
go to create link, enter url

This is not my code, but it shows that execCommand is not working for createlink


Actual results:

nothing shows up, on chrome we get a link


Expected results:

link should have been inserted into text feild

Comment 1

[Samuel Vasko]

I am experiencing same issue on Firefox 25 on Ubuntu.

Comment 2

[Rob]

+1. I'm seeing this on your demo page in FF 31 on my mac. I've seen this issue in both the Mozilla demo, as well as some other rich text editing platforms. Both work in Chrome.

Note: Create link works if you enter text, select it, and then add a link. It's only when adding a link without selecting text first.

Mozilla link:
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/

Comment 3

[cyril.auburtin]

Yes, it's weird, it seems it needs to lose somehow focus before working

anyway this is easily done with insertHTML

Comment 4

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Attachment: bug895510.html

Chrome behaves here in an undocumented and inconsistent way. It should really about adding anchor to existing text, not creating a new one.

Edit: Filed https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1089725

Comment 5

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

At this point maybe we should follow others, as we ended up being the only browser engine not doing this after Edge abandoned its engine.