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Bug 11483 - What should selectionStart/End return when there is no selection and no cursor? e.g. display:none
Summary: What should selectionStart/End return when there is no selection and no curso...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: Disagree
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2010-12-06 18:51 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:05 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-12-06 18:51:41 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#textFieldSelection

Comment:
What should selectionStart/End return when there is no selection and no
cursor? e.g. display:none

Posted from: 91.181.184.140 by ms2ger@gmail.com
Comment 1 Ms2ger 2011-01-11 15:39:41 UTC 
This is about the API on input elements, which you still own, I'm afraid.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-02-17 02:00:43 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: There is always a selection or a cursor.
Comment 3 contributor 2011-02-17 02:02:14 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5900.
Check-in comment: Make the initial state of selections and cursors platform-specific.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5899&to=5900
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:05 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1