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Bug 13840 - selectAll needs to behave differently inside an editing host
Summary: selectAll needs to behave differently inside an editing host
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HISTORICAL - HTML Editing APIs (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Deadline: 2015-07-30
Assignee: Aryeh Gregor
QA Contact: HTML Editing APIs spec bugbot
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Depends on: 14250
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Reported: 2011-08-19 19:22 UTC by Aryeh Gregor
Modified: 2015-07-30 23:47 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Aryeh Gregor 2011-08-19 19:22:32 UTC 
1) selectAll should be defined to behave the same as Ctrl+A.

2) If executed inside an editing host, it needs to select only the editing host's contents, not the whole document.
Comment 1 Ehsan Akhgari [:ehsan] 2011-08-22 03:25:12 UTC 
Both of these proposals make sense to me.
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor 2011-10-26 20:58:48 UTC 
What qualifies as "inside an editing host", though?  Do we follow the activeElement?  My tests currently set the selection without changing the focus, so they don't change activeElement.  I'm reluctant to normatively depend on activeElement here, because its behavior isn't really defined, so selectAll wouldn't really be defined.