Bug 10881 – Selecting the entire range of an inline element causes the element to be deleted

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Component: HTML Editing

[Robert Burns]

Selecting the entire range of an inline element causes the element to be deleted and replaced by a <span> element with class="apple-style-span". The following code reproduces the problem. This is an attempt at a workaround for another bug (to be reported). WebView generally has problems with selectedDOMRange navigation (keyboard and programmatically)  editing problems when working near the bondary of an element.

		if ([selectedRange collapsed]) {
			
			textPlaceholder = [theDOMDocument createTextNode:
				[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c%c%c",
					8203, 8203, 8203]];
			textPlaceholder2 = [theDOMDocument createTextNode:
				[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c",
					8203]];			
			textPlaceholder3 = [theDOMDocument createTextNode:
				[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%c",
					8203]];			
			
			
			[newElement appendChild:textPlaceholder];
			
			[selectedRange insertNode:newElement];
			if (debugState == YES) NSLog(@"the selected range is: %@", selectedRange);

			// if these are set to  0 and 3 (selecting the entire range of newElement the newElement
                       // will be replaced by an apple style span wrapping the entire paragraph set to
                       //  "font-style:normal" and another set to "font-style:bold"
			[selectedRange setStart:textPlaceholder :1];
			[selectedRange setEnd:textPlaceholder :2];

			elementInsertionRange = selectedRange;
			if (debugState == YES) NSLog(@"the selected range is: %@", selectedRange);
			[webView display];
			
		} else {
			
			aFragment = [selectedRange cloneContents];
			NSLog(@"aFragment is %@", [aFragment textContent]);
			[newElement appendChild:aFragment];
			// [selectedRange surroundContents:newElement];
			[webView replaceSelectionWithNode:newElement];
		}

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Could you give us an example? e.g. markup + editing operations to reproduce the bug?