HTMLTextFormControl::setSelectionRange doesn't need to trigger a synchronous layout if the text field is already focused since we don't need to call hasVisibleTextArea in that case, which depends on the dimension of RenderBox.
We can get rid of synchronous layout completely once we fix webkit.org/b/38696 as I've outlined in https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2014-February/026235.html but we can fix this one first in order to resolve the bug 128797 since we don't call setSelectionRange in setValue when the text field is not focused.
Created attachment 224186 [details] Fixes the bug
Attachment 224186 [details] did not pass style-queue: ERROR: Source/WebCore/ChangeLog:19: Line contains tab character. [whitespace/tab] [5] Total errors found: 1 in 3 files If any of these errors are false positives, please file a bug against check-webkit-style.
Comment on attachment 224186 [details] Fixes the bug View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=224186&action=review > Source/WebCore/ChangeLog:19 > + already. Also pass in DoNotSetFocus option to setSelection since we already have the focus in that case. Odd. I thought I removed this tab character before uploading it :/
Comment on attachment 224186 [details] Fixes the bug Looks good.
Committed r164156: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/164156>