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Bug 19316 - setRangeText() issues: Step 6, s/selection start/start/ s/selection end/end/. Step 8, "select" selectMode, s/selection end be end/selection end be start + the length of the value of the first argument/, similar issue in selectMode "end".
Summary: setRangeText() issues: Step 6, s/selection start/start/ s/selection end/end/....
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Reported: 2012-10-07 05:19 UTC by Silvia Pfeiffer
Modified: 2012-10-14 12:26 UTC (History)
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Description Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-07 05:19:09 UTC 
Copy of WHATWG bug: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18337

Specification:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#textFieldSelection
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#textFieldSelection

Comment:
setRangeText() issues: Step 6, s/selection start/start/ s/selection end/end/.
Step 8, "select" selectMode, s/selection end be end/selection end be the
length of the value of the first argument/, similar issue in selectMode "end".

Also, on step 5 of selectMode "preserve":

[[
Otherwise: if selection end is greater than start, then set it to end.
]]

Seems the final "end" should be "start + replacement.length()".

(Basically, it looks like "end" is generally confused to mean the end of the
replacement string, instead of the end index of what's meant to be replaced.)


This will apply WHATWG patches:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/32ec020284436740c6a177283d3dccd7735c299c
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/0034b4b74dd118439beea53025b95cb52e092b79
Comment 1 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-14 12:26:32 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/32ec020284436740c6a177283d3dccd7735c299c
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/0034b4b74dd118439beea53025b95cb52e092b79
Rationale: accepted WHATWG change