Bug 209736
| Summary: | textarea selectionDirection returns 'none' for mouse selection | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Bing Wang <wangbing.imail> |
| Component: | HTML Editing | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | ap, megan_gardner, rniwa, webkit-bug-importer, wenson_hsieh |
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | InRadar |
| Version: | Safari 13 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60403 | ||
Bing Wang
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Select some text inside a textarea in backward/forward direction
2. get selectionDirection property on that textarea via javascript
What is the expected behavior?
Expected to get value 'backward/forward'
What went wrong?
Always get 'none'
Did this work before? N/A
Here's jsFiddle that demonstrates the behavior:
http://jsfiddle.net/7Mhqy/1/
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Radar WebKit Bug Importer
<rdar://problem/61070960>
Alexey Proskuryakov
This property only works for keyboard selection (Shift+Right/Left) in WebKit and in Chrome. It does work for mouse selection in Firefox.
Ryosuke Niwa
(In reply to Bing Wang from comment #0)
> Steps to reproduce the problem:
> 1. Select some text inside a textarea in backward/forward direction
> 2. get selectionDirection property on that textarea via javascript
>
> What is the expected behavior?
> Expected to get value 'backward/forward'
>
> What went wrong?
> Always get 'none'
This is expected. On macOS, mouse selection is directionless. The selection extends backwards or forwards depending on user's input, at which point the direction will be determined.