Comment #4 on issue 2435 by [email protected]: HTMLTextAreaElement.textLength is not implemented http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=2435
In the end, this will be a WebKit bug, not a chromium bug. That said, I think we could close this as INVALID. We could certainly add this accessor. And maybe we should run a crawl over Google's index first to see how common the string ".textLength" is before making any decisions. It took me quite a few minutes of searching to find out anything about this property. The W3C does not mention it in any specification. MDC (Mozilla's docs) don't mention it. IE's docs don't mention it. I think it probably is introduced in IE "by accident": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535904(VS.85).aspx# by inheriting from something like: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textboxbase.textlength.aspx But I'm just not sure. I don't know enough about IE's DOM. MDC docs talk about a XUL property: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL/Property/TextLength But I was under the impression that XUL accessors should not affect the normal DOM, so once again, maybe by accident? HTML5 also does not mention this property: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element If we're going to add this property to WebKit, we should get HTML5 (aka Hixie) to add it too. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
