[webkit-dev] [New DOM property] selectionDirection on HTMLInputElement and HTMLTextAreaElement

Darin Fisher darin at chromium.org
Fri Jul 15 11:04:59 PDT 2011


Are any other browsers implementing it?
On Jul 14, 2011 5:47 PM, "Ryosuke Niwa" <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a patch to add selectionDirection property on HTMLInputElement and
> HTMLTextAreaElement on https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60403.
>
> The purpose of this property is to let websites control base and extent of
> selection. The property has been added to the HTML5 spec section
> 4.10.20<
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#textFieldSelection
>,
> and an extensive discussion about this
> feature<
http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-January/029814.html
>
> has
> been done on whatwg. Given the discussion took place on whatwg and how
> simple this API is, I consider it to be a stable API.
>
> Best,
> Ryosuke Niwa
> Software Engineer
> Google Inc.
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