[Bug 13411] New: The spec for setting selectionEnd seems incorrect (or at least incompatible with the symmetric selectionStart case)

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=13411

           Summary: The spec for setting selectionEnd seems incorrect (or
                    at least incompatible with the symmetric
                    selectionStart case)
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/mult
                    ipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#dom-texta
                    rea/input-selectionend
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: ehsan@mozilla.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: bzbarsky@mit.edu, mike@w3.org,
                    public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org, Ms2ger@gmail.com


For selectionStart, the spec says:

"On setting, it must act as if the setSelectionRange() method had been called,
with the new value as the first argument; the current value of the selectionEnd
attribute as the second argument, unless the current value of the selectionEnd
is less than the new value, in which case the second argument must also be the
new value; and the current value of the selectionDirection as the third
argument."

For selectionEnd, it says:

"On setting, it must act as if the setSelectionRange() method had been called,
with the current value of the selectionStart attribute as the first argument,
the current value of the selectionEnd attribute as the first argument, and the
new value as the third argument."

That sentence is wrong :-)  Also, I think we should explicitly mention that if
the new value is less than the current value of selectionStart, the first
argument should also be the new value.

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Received on Thursday, 28 July 2011 16:07:45 UTC