← Back to release summary

INPUT element: selectionDirection, selectionStart, and selectionEnd attribute getters should not throw

Category

DOM

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 58)

Intent stage

None

Summary

For input types which don't support text selection API, we have thrown InvalidStateError. The specification was changed so that null is returned in such case.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#dom-textarea/input-selectionstart
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/622679

View on chromestatus.com