NEW 27019
window.getSelection().focusNode is null with onfocus handler registered 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27019
Summary window.getSelection().focusNode is null with onfocus handler registered
Jessie Berlin
Reported 2009-07-06 20:00:12 PDT
Created attachment 32354 [details] Test case for window.getSelection with onfocus, onclick handlers When an onfocus handler is registered on a div containing another div with text, window.getSelection().focusNode reports null in said onfocus handler. If the handler is an onclick handler, it correctly reports the focusNode as a HTML div element.
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Test case for window.getSelection with onfocus, onclick handlers (2.27 KB, text/html)
2009-07-06 20:00 PDT, Jessie Berlin 		no flags
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Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 1 2010-10-26 22:18:27 PDT
This is due to the fact WebKit sets selection after setting the focus.
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 2 2010-10-26 22:19:37 PDT
Ojan, Alexey: Do you think we should change the WebKit's behavior so that we set the selection first and then focus? This will make our behavior consistent with IE.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 3 2010-10-26 22:37:14 PDT
> This will make our behavior consistent with IE. Have you tested Firefox? I'm not aware of any reason why such a change would be bad per se. But I don't think that we allow unfocused (inactive? I'm confused about the difference) elements/frames to be selected, because having multiple selections in a window is bad UI.
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 4 2011-03-03 22:47:11 PST
FocusController / SelectionController is in the realm of the HTML Editing component.
Ahmad Saleem
Comment 5 2022-07-30 10:22:36 PDT
Latest test results across all browsers: *** Safari 15.6 on macOS *** > Clicking on 'Red' padding window.getSelection(): window.getSelection().focusNode: null > Clicking on 'Blue' padding window.getSelection(): window.getSelection().focusNode: [object Text] window.getSelection().focusNode.parentNode: [object HTMLDivElement] *** Chrome Canary 106 *** [MATCH WITH SAFARI] > Clicking on 'Red' padding window.getSelection(): window.getSelection().focusNode: null > Clicking on 'Blue' padding window.getSelection(): window.getSelection().focusNode: [object Text] window.getSelection().focusNode.parentNode: [object HTMLDivElement] *** Firefox Nightly 105 *** > Clicking on 'Red' padding window.getSelection(): window.getSelection().focusNode: [object Text] window.getSelection().focusNode.parentNode: [object HTMLDivElement] > Clicking on 'Blue' padding window.getSelection(): window.getSelection().focusNode: [object Text] window.getSelection().focusNode.parentNode: [object HTMLDivElement] ___________ I am not sure on web-spec but just wanted to share latest results across all browsers using attached test case. Thanks!
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