Fix to keep the selection of the text field in input element after setSelectionRange is called by d…

Source/core/page/EventHandler.cpp

 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (C) 2006 Alexey Proskuryakov (ap@webkit.org)
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Digia Plc. and/or its subsidiary(-ies)
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
  * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
  * are met:
  * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
  *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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     if (singleClick)
         focusDocumentView();
 
     Node* innerNode = event.innerNode();
 
     m_mousePressNode = innerNode;
     m_dragStartPos = event.event().position();
 
     bool swallowEvent = false;
     m_mousePressed = true;
-    m_selectionInitiationState = HaveNotStartedSelection;
 
     if (event.event().clickCount() == 2)
         swallowEvent = handleMousePressEventDoubleClick(event);
     else if (event.event().clickCount() >= 3)
         swallowEvent = handleMousePressEventTripleClick(event);
     else
         swallowEvent = handleMousePressEventSingleClick(event);
 
     m_mouseDownMayStartAutoscroll = m_mouseDownMayStartSelect
         || (m_mousePressNode && m_mousePressNode->renderBox() && m_mousePressNode->renderBox()->canBeProgramaticallyScrolled());
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             m_resizeScrollableArea->setInResizeMode(true);
             m_offsetFromResizeCorner = m_resizeScrollableArea->offsetFromResizeCorner(p);
             invalidateClick();
             return true;
         }
     }
 
     m_frame->selection().setCaretBlinkingSuspended(true);
 
     bool swallowEvent = !dispatchMouseEvent(EventTypeNames::mousedown, mev.innerNode(), m_clickCount, mouseEvent, true);
+    // m_selectionInitiationState is initialized after dispatching mousedown event in order not to keep the selection by DOM APIs
+    // Because we can't give the user the chance to handle the selection by user action like dragging if we keep the selection in case of mousedown.
+    // FireFox also has the same behavior and it's more compatible with other browsers.
+    m_selectionInitiationState = HaveNotStartedSelection;
     swallowEvent = swallowEvent || handleMouseFocus(mouseEvent);
     m_capturesDragging = !swallowEvent || mev.scrollbar();
 
     // If the hit testing originally determined the event was in a scrollbar, refetch the MouseEventWithHitTestResults
     // in case the scrollbar widget was destroyed when the mouse event was handled.
     if (mev.scrollbar()) {
         const bool wasLastScrollBar = mev.scrollbar() == m_lastScrollbarUnderMouse.get();
         HitTestRequest request(HitTestRequest::ReadOnly | HitTestRequest::Active);
         mev = m_frame->document()->prepareMouseEvent(request, documentPoint, mouseEvent);
         if (wasLastScrollBar && mev.scrollbar() != m_lastScrollbarUnderMouse.get())
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 }
 
 void EventHandler::notifyElementActivated()
 {
     // Since another element has been set to active, stop current timer and clear reference.
     if (m_activeIntervalTimer.isActive())
         m_activeIntervalTimer.stop();
     m_lastDeferredTapElement = nullptr;
 }
 
+void EventHandler::notifySelectionChanged()
+{
+    m_selectionInitiationState = ExtendedSelection;
+}
+
 bool EventHandler::handleAccessKey(const PlatformKeyboardEvent& evt)
 {
     // FIXME: Ignoring the state of Shift key is what neither IE nor Firefox do.
     // IE matches lower and upper case access keys regardless of Shift key state - but if both upper and
     // lower case variants are present in a document, the correct element is matched based on Shift key state.
     // Firefox only matches an access key if Shift is not pressed, and does that case-insensitively.
     ASSERT(!(accessKeyModifiers() & PlatformEvent::ShiftKey));
     if ((evt.modifiers() & ~PlatformEvent::ShiftKey) != accessKeyModifiers())
         return false;
     String key = evt.unmodifiedText();
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 unsigned EventHandler::accessKeyModifiers()
 {
 #if OS(MACOSX)
     return PlatformEvent::CtrlKey | PlatformEvent::AltKey;
 #else
     return PlatformEvent::AltKey;
 #endif
 }
 
 } // namespace blink