- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 08:02:49 +0200
On Mon, 10 May 2010 07:11:06 +0200, Biju <bijumaillist at gmail.com> wrote: > Can we have a new DOM property textarea.selectionText > which can be used to set/get selection text of a TEXTAREA/INPUT > type=text. > > Current method is complicated and varies between IE and Firefox How is it complicated? Also, bugs in a feature is not a good reason to add more features. It only increases the amount of bugs and complicates the overall platform. > Thanks > BijuGC > > PS, > I have already submitted > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404981 > Trying to programmatically replace a small selection text in TEXTAREA > with a large text content is slow in Firefox due to > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190147 > But I know if we paste manually it works fast enough. So may be having > .selectionText helps -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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