156500 2016-04-12 03:30:23 -0700 Do not throw when getting selectionDirection/selectionStart/selectionEnd on input 2022-08-09 08:23:33 -0700 1 1 1 Unclassified WebKit DOM WebKit Nightly Build Unspecified Unspecified RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED InRadar P2 Normal --- 1 zcorpan webkit-unassigned ahmad.saleem792 ap bfulgham cdumez rniwa webkit-bug-importer oldest_to_newest 1183030 0 zcorpan 2016-04-12 03:30:23 -0700 See https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/1006 var input = document.createElement('input'); input.type = 'checkbox'; input.selectionDirection; // should return null input.selectionStart; // should return null input.selectionEnd; // should return null 1183063 1 cdumez 2016-04-12 08:57:17 -0700 I am not against this change but I am slightly worried about backward compatibility here. I think I'll wait a bit before implementing this. 1183064 2 webkit-bug-importer 2016-04-12 08:58:07 -0700 <rdar://problem/25680941> 1213144 3 cdumez 2016-07-21 09:07:55 -0700 Chrome 52 and Firefox 47 still throw in this case. 1889854 4 ahmad.saleem792 2022-08-08 16:59:52 -0700 I am not sure whether I am testing correctly here but when I copy the following snippet from Comment 0 into JSfiddle, I get following behavior across browsers: Link - https://jsfiddle.net/sun1vzxq/show *** Safari 15.6 on macOS 12.5 *** Error in console - "<a class='gotoLine' href='#43:6'>43:6</a> TypeError: Type error" *** Firefox Nightly 105 *** No error in console *** Chrome Canary 106 *** No error in console ______ Just wanted to share updated results. Thanks! 1889980 5 zcorpan 2022-08-09 08:03:50 -0700 It seems this is fixed in Safari TP 148 (Safari 16.0, WebKit 17614.1.17.1) http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/10540 log: object "null" (0 props) log: object "null" (0 props) log: object "null" (0 props) 1889982 6 ahmad.saleem792 2022-08-09 08:23:33 -0700 Indeed, it is fixed in Safari Technical Preview 150. Thanks for bump simon@bocoup.com.. I am going to mark this as "RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED".