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Bug 18294 - When setting designMode to 'on', the selection should be moved to an empty selection at the start of body (or something like that). If there isn't a body yet, wait until there is. Don't do this for contenteditable.
Summary: When setting designMode to 'on', the selection should be moved to an empty se...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-02-01 06:39 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:59:33 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17743 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-07-11 12:12:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-07-11 12:12:15 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/editing.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#making-entire-documents-editable:-the-designmode-idl-attribute
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#making-entire-documents-editable:-the-designmode-idl-attribute

Comment:
When setting designMode to 'on', the selection should be moved to an empty
selection at the start of body (or something like that). If there isn't a body
yet, wait until there is. Don't do this for contenteditable.

Posted from: 2001:4c28:a030:30:3974:4eac:84c6:cfd6 by simonp@opera.com
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7.3; U; en) Presto/2.10.289 Version/12.00
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Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2013-02-01 06:39:52 UTC 
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Status: Accepted

Change Description: 
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/2c4c39fc1eb664b794003862929df4ecad624c04

Rationale: adopted WHATWG fix