13909 2011-08-26 00:05:10 +0000 Selections have three possible directions, not two 2014-04-22 07:13:39 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - Selection API unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 ian rniwa ayg benjamp mike public-webapps rniwa public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55828 0 ian 2011-08-26 00:05:10 +0000 On Mac, a newly created selection is by default neither forward nor backward. See the equivalent text in the HTML spec for input elements. 55927 1 ayg 2011-08-28 15:39:36 +0000 I don't have a Mac handy for testing, so I don't know how browsers behave on Mac. If anyone wants to tell me how the spec should change to match browsers, please do. Adding an explicit settable selection direction property on the Selection interface would also be useful, of course . . . 57177 2 ayg 2011-09-22 19:31:19 +0000 Moving Selection-related bugs to editing: see bug 14248, bug 14252. 58276 3 rniwa 2011-10-15 20:28:39 +0000 Selection on Mac is directionless at the beginning. Selection gets a direction when setBaseAndExtent is called on getSelection() or base, extent, focus, or anchor of getSelection() is modified, or selection is extended via arrow keys. See http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#dom-textarea/input-selectiondirection 104122 4 benjamp 2014-04-21 21:09:19 +0000 Moving to Selection API component. 104146 5 rniwa 2014-04-22 07:13:39 +0000 I've fixed this when I ported the specification: http://rniwa.github.io/selection-api.html#dfn-direction "Each selection has a direction, forwards, backwards, or directionless. If the user creates a selection by indicating first one boundary point of the range and then the other (such as by clicking on one point and dragging to another), and the first indicated boundary point is after ([DOM4]) the second, then the corresponding selection must initially be backwards. If the first indicated boundary point is before ([DOM4]) the second, then the corresponding selection must initially be forwards. Otherwise, it must be directionless."