Bug 13860

Summary: Can't use selection.modify() to move/extend a non-editable selection
Product: WebKit Reporter: Sridhar Gurivireddy <just1gb>
Component: HTML EditingAssignee: Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status: NEW    
Severity: Normal CC: justin.garcia
Priority: P2    
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://just1gb.googlepages.com/selection.html
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Sridhar Gurivireddy
Reported 2007-05-24 10:25:26 PDT
selection.modify() does not work when "move" is specified as first argument. var selection = window.getSelection(); selection.modify("move", "forward", "sentence"); This works in Firefox
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Test file (2.68 KB, text/html)
2007-05-29 11:12 PDT, Sridhar Gurivireddy 		no flags
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Justin Garcia
Comment 1 2007-05-24 11:19:08 PDT
Selection::modify is Safari only, FF doesn't support it afaict. I'm not sure why you'd be having problems with selection.modify("move", "forward", "sentence"), can you include the entire test case?
Sridhar Gurivireddy
Comment 2 2007-05-29 11:12:19 PDT
Created attachment 14769 [details] Test file Please use the attached file
Justin Garcia
Comment 3 2007-05-30 16:38:53 PDT
I see. The test tries to modify a non-editable selection.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 4 2007-10-05 04:58:06 PDT
Marking confirmed per the above comment (there doesn't seem to be any reason to restrict selection.modify() to editable content).
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