model.selection range issue with chromium 132

[dil-bberta]

📝 Provide detailed reproduction steps (if any)

1. Select a text piece
2. Click on the link button
3. The model.document.selection returns an empty range and doesn't contain the selected range

✔️ Expected result

const { selection } = model.document;
Calling selection.getFirstRange or checking the _ranges should contain the selected range.

❌ Actual result

const { selection } = model.document;
Calling selection.getFirstRange or checking the _ranges, the range is empty (start == end).

❓ Possible solution

📃 Other details

• Browser: Edge , Chrome (132.X)
• OS: Win11
• First affected CKEditor version: 41.4.2
• Installed CKEditor plugins: LinkUi

[dil-bberta]

Possible root cause of the issue : https://developer.chrome.com/release-notes/132?hl=en#fix_selection_iscollapsed_in_shadow_dom

[Witoso]

Are you using the editor in the Shadow DOM?

[Witoso]

I cannot reproduce on the latest demo, first range is returned:

[dil-bberta]

We are maintaining a solution that was built upon the CKeditor 34.2.0. This custom Plugin creates a 'Link' button under the selected text and when it is clicked we try to get the range from the editor:

init() {
  this.button = new ButtonView(this.locale);
      this.button.set({
        label: i18next.t('common.link'),
        withText: true,
        tooltip: false,
      });
  
  this.button.on('execute', createLink.bind(this));
...
}

function createLink() { 
  const { selection } = this.editor.model.document;
  const range = selection.getFirstRange();
...
}

In the bound function the range is always pointing to the start of any selection but doesn't hold the full range.

For example: I select a text from 10 to 20, but the editor.model.document.selection.getFirstRange() returns {start:10, end: 10}.

[Witoso]

This version of the editor is 2y old, I'm sorry, but we are not accepting bugs and fix requests against old versions. During that time there were multiple API improvements and browser compatibility improvements. Please provide the reproduction steps for the latest editor version.

[dil-bberta]

Right now we are using the version 41.4.0 and the issue is there.

[Witoso]

This is still an outdated version, please provide the repro steps for the latest 44.1.0.