Bug 19701 – Select All + Delete doesn't delete all the content in a contentEditable region

• Component: HTML Editing
• Status: NEW

[Ojan Vafai]

Test case coming.

[Ojan Vafai]

Created attachment 21865 [details]
reduced test case

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This also happens on the Mac (of course, with Cmd+A in place of Ctrl+A).

[Justin Garcia]

<rdar://problem/6609509>

[Adele Peterson]

*** Bug 24789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Julie Parent]

*** Bug 25088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Adele Peterson]

My planned approach to just delete everything in the editable root  will break a bunch of tests- including the case added for list editing with http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/21648.  So I don't think that straightforward approach will work since sometimes a delete is part of a more complex editing action, or its immediately followed by typing.

[Adele Peterson]

This was the test I meant to point to:
editing/inserting/4875189-1.html

[Ojan Vafai]

Ugh. This is another area where position normalizing bites us. In this test, delete/replace should leave the LI, but if the whole contents of the DIV is selected (e.g. the range's start is set to div,0 and end is set to div,1), which is what select-all should do, then it should not leave the LI. But with position normalizing, we can't distinguish between those selections at the time of the delete.

For reference, here's the contents of editing/inserting/4875189-1.html:
<p>This tests for a bug when replacing the contents of a list.  The list shouldn't be removed, just its contents.</p>
<div contenteditable="true"><ul><li id="li">You shouldn't see this.</li></ul></div>

<script>
var r = document.createRange();
var li = document.getElementById("li");
r.setStart(li, 0);
r.setEnd(li, li.childNodes.length);
var selection = window.getSelection();
selection.addRange(r);
document.execCommand("InsertHTML", false, "This should be in a list item.")
</script>

[Justin Garcia]

I thought we had fixed this in:

http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/43044

Select All + Delete doesn't delete everything, but a subsequent delete will...