[whatwg] selection-related IDL attributes and methods and input type

[Ian Hickson]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Mounir Lamouri wrote:
> 
> Currently, the specs say that select(), selectionStart, selectionEnd and
> setSelectionRange() only apply to the input element when the type is
> text, search, url, telephone or password. Obviously, they should also
> apply when type is email [1].
> [1] See http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12262

I don't think it's obvious, as noted in that bug. :-)


> But, I'm wondering what should be done for types that should come with a 
> widget like date, datetime, datetime-local, time, week, month, number, 
> range or color. The resulting widget might have a text field. That's 
> even very likely for all time-related and number types. Should those IDL 
> attribute and methods apply in that case and be used on the text field? 
> or should we just ignore them? Or maybe, we could have them apply 
> depending on the UA's widget and not raise an exception when they do not 
> apply [2] and do nothing instead?
> 
> [2] Actually, that's another issue but I wonder why we raise an 
> exception...

What is the use case here?

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