I have to suspect the effect you are seeing is because selecting an input text
only selects the inner text and not the markup so the markup persists.
But I wonder what the purpose of having HTML in an input element is, since
there is no input gesture that will let you input HTML? What are you expecting?
As to whether to select the entire content, I think it has become accepted that
when you initially select an input element, the entire content should be
selected. This is contrary to Apple UI guidelines which say you should place
the cursor at the point nearest to the mouse click, but it is apparently the
Microsoft UI (and is creeping into OS X through Firefox). Not that I like
this, but I think it has become the /de facto/ standard.
On 2010-04-09, at 11:29, Roger Yarrow wrote:
> This is occurring in OL 4.7.1 swf9/10. I searched JIRA for a bug but
> couldn't seem to find a match for this situation. Are users supposed to
> just enter bugs directly into JIRA or post here first? :)
>
> The issue is that inputtext, once clicked or selected, gets all screwy with
> drawing HTML. Once clicked/selected, all text is rendered improperly and
> cannot be recovered -- meaning it is always drawn wrong no matter how many
> times you set the text.
>
> Run the test program. Just click each button back and forth as many times
> as you want and the HTML will render properly. Next, click inside the
> inputtext (focus) and/or select text within it. Then click one of the
> buttons -- when the text updates, ALL the text will forever be displayed
> underlined or bolded depending upon which tag was in use at the time of the
> click. So, if you click Bold and then select from the inputtext, click
> Underline, and all your text is bolded. Reload the app, perform the same
> feat on Underline, and all your text will forever be underlined.
>
> If I set the inputtext selectable="false" the problem still occurs. You
> click on the text, it selects it ALL (which I think is another bug?) and
> then the HTML rendering behavior appears.
>
> <canvas width="100%" debug="true" height="560" >
> <simplelayout axis="y" spacing="10"/>
> <button>Bold
> <handler name="onclick">
> <![CDATA[
> test.setAttribute('text','<b>Here is bold</b><br/><br/>And this
> should be plaintext<br/><br/><b>And bold again</b>');
> ]]>
> </handler>
> </button>
> <button>Underlined
> <handler name="onclick">
> <![CDATA[
> test.setAttribute('text','<a href="#"><u><font
> color="#0000ff">Here is a hyperlink</font></u></a><br/><br/>And this should
> be plaintext');
> ]]>
> </handler>
> </button>
> <inputtext width="300" height="200" id="test" multiline="true"
> oninit="this.setHTML(true)"/>
> </canvas>
