All editing commands work inside input/textarea on WebKit although some of them have no effect (e.g. bold, italic, etc...)
I think reusing execCommand is better than adding new method for input/textarea elements for each new feature request like this one. - Ryosuke On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > > > > Why are we adding this new API? WebKit already supports > > > > document.execCommand('InsertText', false, "new selected text"); > > That's for contenteditable regions, right? > > The new API is for <input> and <textarea>. Also, it's not limited to > replacing the selected text, it can be any region. > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >