10583 2010-09-08 23:37:40 +0000 [Selection] toString should return only the text within the selection that is visible to the user 2015-04-13 20:14:06 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - Selection API unspecified Other other ASSIGNED https://w3c.github.io/selection-api/ P3 normal --- 10798 1 contributor rniwa annevk ayg benjamp ehsan ian mike Ms2ger public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-webapps timdown public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 38709 0 contributor 2010-09-08 23:37:40 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#selection Comment: toString does not represent what WebKit and Mozilla do, which is to return only the text within the selection that is visible to the user. Posted from: 77.44.46.22 38730 1 timdown 2010-09-09 08:13:20 +0000 *** Bug 10584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 38732 2 timdown 2010-09-09 09:05:38 +0000 I submitted this bug. Consider the following example HTML with selection delimited by pipes: <div>|One<script>var x = 1;</script>two|</div> Calling toString() on a Range representing that selection would produce "Onevarx = 1;two", while calling toString() on the Selection object in both Mozilla and WebKit will produce "Onetwo". The latter behaviour is contrary to HTML5's specified behaviour, according to which it should return the same string as the Range: "Objects implementing this interface must stringify to a concatenation of the results of invoking the toString() method of the Range object on each of the ranges of the selection, in the order they appear in the list (first to last)." This section of the spec is too simplistic, since major browsers have historically done something more subtle (i.e. returning a concatenation of only the text that is visible to the user within each selection range). 39488 3 ian 2010-09-26 17:12:57 +0000 It seems it's even more subtle than that... if I take your example but make the script element display:block, I get the script's contents with newlines around it in the .toString() output. I really don't want to make HTML depend on detailed CSS stuff for its definitions. Anne, is there anything I can reference that can define this? Ms2ger, is there any chance you can take Selection wholesale and put it in DOM Range? 39491 4 annevk 2010-09-26 17:19:38 +0000 It very much sounds like innerText. I am not sure where exactly that needs to be defined. 44981 5 ayg 2011-02-01 19:00:44 +0000 I'm working on this, along with innerText (it will be the same algorithm for both). 57176 6 ayg 2011-09-22 19:31:10 +0000 Moving Selection-related bugs to editing: see bug 14248, bug 14252. 104123 7 benjamp 2014-04-21 21:10:10 +0000 Moving to Selection API component.