On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:35:15 -0000, Marijn Haverbeke <mari...@gmail.com>
wrote:
So I propose a selectionAnchor property, which holds either "top" or
"bottom", and can be set to one of these strings to modify the
direction. "top" would mean the anchor lies after the base of the
selection, so further shift-movement modifies the bottom, whereas
"botton" means the inverse, with movement modifying the top. (I think
the "top"/"bottom" terminology shouldn't break with any languages that
order characters differently. Does anyone write bottom to top? If
someone sees a problem, we could choose other terms, but these are the
most obvious I could come up with.)
Would you use it in cases other than restoring previous selection?
If not, maybe methods to save/restore selection or modify content without
removing selection would be better? (this would allow browsers to support
multiple selected ranges, block selection in multiline inputs, etc.)
var previousSelection = input.currentSelection; // opaque object
describing properties of selection
input.value = 'foo';
input.currentSelection = previousSelection;
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regards, Kornel Lesiński
