Bug 193775 - Calling focus() on a text field selects all of its contents
Summary: Calling focus() on a text field selects all of its contents
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Forms (show other bugs)
Version: WebKit Nightly Build
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Wenson Hsieh
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Reported: 2019-01-24 11:40 PST by Wenson Hsieh
Modified: 2019-01-24 15:09 PST (History)
2 users (show)

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2019-01-24 11:41 PST, Wenson Hsieh 		no flags Details
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Description Wenson Hsieh 2019-01-24 11:40:30 PST 
This is different from behavior in Chrome/FF. In the attached test case, tap the "Click here…" text.
Comment 1 Wenson Hsieh 2019-01-24 11:41:12 PST 
Created attachment 360023 [details]
Test case
Comment 2 Wenson Hsieh 2019-01-24 15:09:49 PST 
After writing a macOS test app, it seems that this was done to mirror the behavior when becoming first responder on an NSTextField in macOS.