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