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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - document.execCommand() should not count as a &quot;user edit&quot; for the purposes of ValidityState.tooLong"
   href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149911">149911</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>document.execCommand() should not count as a &quot;user edit&quot; for the purposes of ValidityState.tooLong
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>WebKit
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>WebKit Nightly Build
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>Normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P2
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Forms
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>webkit-unassigned&#64;lists.webkit.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>webkit&#64;chrisrebert.com
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        <pre>Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/cvrebert/vdy3emx2/">http://jsfiddle.net/cvrebert/vdy3emx2/</a> in WebKit Nightly
2. Look at the console output.

What is the expected behavior?
The console output should be:
<span class="quote">&gt; Before script edit: false
&gt; After script edit: false</span >

Quoting from <a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#attr-fe-maxlength">https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#attr-fe-maxlength</a>

<span class="quote">&gt; Constraint validation: If an element has a maximum allowed value length, its dirty value flag is true, its value was last changed by a user edit (as opposed to a change made by a script), and the code-unit length of the element's value is greater than the element's maximum allowed value length, then the element is suffering from being too long.</span >

Since the &lt;input&gt;'s value was last changed by script unbiddenly invoking document.execCommand(), which should count as a script edit, not a user edit, the &lt;input&gt;'s validity.tooLong boolean should remain false because the &quot;its value was last changed by a user edit (as opposed to a change made by a script)&quot; condition has not been satisfied.

What went wrong?
The actual console output is:
<span class="quote">&gt; Before script edit: false
&gt; After script edit: true</span >

Which indicates that document.execCommand() is being treated as a &quot;user edit&quot;, thus causing input.validity.tooLong to become true.


This bug is causing some test failures in
<a href="http://w3c-test.org/html/semantics/forms/constraints/form-validation-validity-tooLong.html">http://w3c-test.org/html/semantics/forms/constraints/form-validation-validity-tooLong.html</a>
(AKA <a href="https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/blob/master/html/semantics/forms/constraints/form-validation-validity-tooLong.html">https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/blob/master/html/semantics/forms/constraints/form-validation-validity-tooLong.html</a> )

Analogous Chrome bug: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=540978">https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=540978</a></pre>
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