HTMLInputElement.select() doesn't work in iOS Safari

• Component: Forms
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[shrpne]

HTMLInputElement.select() doesn't work in iOS Safari. While in desktop Safari it works fine.
For now, it's only modern browser without the support of `.select()` method.
`.setSelectionRange()` or `selectionStart` with `selectionEnd` should be used as workaround.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/46962874>

[Chris Dumez]

I can see there is not IOS specific code in our select implementation:
void HTMLTextFormControlElement::select(SelectionRevealMode revealMode, const AXTextStateChangeIntent& intent)
{
    // FIXME: We should abstract the selection behavior into an EditingBehavior function instead
    // of hardcoding the behavior using a macro define.
#if PLATFORM(IOS_FAMILY)
    // We don't want to select all the text on iOS. Instead use the standard textfield behavior of going to the end of the line.
    setSelectionRange(std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), SelectionHasForwardDirection, revealMode, intent);
#else
    setSelectionRange(0, std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), SelectionHasNoDirection, revealMode, intent);
#endif
}

Clearly, we have an implementation of HTMLInputElement.select() on all platforms. However, the iOS implementation is a bit different for some reason.

[Ryosuke Niwa]

Wenson, didn't we just fix this behavior recently?

[Wenson Hsieh]

(In reply to Ryosuke Niwa from comment #3)
> Wenson, didn't we just fix this behavior recently?

Yep, in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193758!

(Sorry for the forward dupe — I probably should've found this existing bug before filing a new one).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 193758 ***