[whatwg] Request for new DOM property textarea.selectionText

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
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> All editing commands work inside input/textarea on WebKit although some 
> of them have no effect (e.g. bold, italic, etc...)

That sounds rather odd...


> I think reusing execCommand is better than adding new method for 
> input/textarea elements for each new feature request like this one.

If it was a contentEditable feature I'd reluctantly agree (reluctantly 
because execCommand is a terrible API), but I really don't see why 
execCommand() would work on input controls.

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