Bug 136911 – Non-editable blocks at the beginning/end of contenteditable block break the selection

• Status: NEW
• Component: HTML Editing

[Piotrek Koszuliński (Reinmar)]

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open the attached sample. It contains editable divs with non-editable block islands at the beginning and the end of them.
2. Try steps explained in the sample - CTRL+A, select all from context menu, CTRL+end/home, setting selection programatically.

What is the expected behavior?
Selection should include all the contents of editable element from the first non-editable block to the last one.

What went wrong?
Selection is either totally lost (first case) or a collapsed selection is set (second case).


I am aware that this is a tricky case but it works fine in all other browsers (except of course Blink). I tested the attached sample on Firefox and IE11 and both - visual part and selection API part - were working all right.

This issue was reported multiple times on CKEditor's bug tracker - http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/11064. It is getting more and more important for adoption of CKEditor widgets (wrappers for non-editable content inside editor) which proved to be very useful and many users start using them.

[Piotrek Koszuliński (Reinmar)]

Created attachment 238294 [details]
Sample to reproduce the issue

[Piotrek Koszuliński (Reinmar)]

Related bug on Blink's bug tracker - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=415474

[Krzysztof]

Is there any progress on this issue? It is still reproducible (same as Blink issue https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=415474).