> If you don't need the TextRange-like character-based modification, you > can instead use the selection's extend() method (supported in Mozilla, > WebKit and Opera for years) to create a backwards selection: Maybe that is what you meant by this not working for TextRange-like things, but, unfortunately, the regular selection primitives do not appear to treat the content of text input and textarea elements as separate elements. I can use this trick to create a reversed selection that starts at the start of the textarea, but not one starting at an arbitrary character.Received on Friday, 14 January 2011 03:33:20 UTC
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