getSelectedText omits <br> characters in IE

[RHabib]

Steps to reproduce ¶

1. Enter following text in CKEditor in IE 11

line 1
line 2
line 3

2. select text and In JS call

   CKEDITOR.instances[yourid].getSelection().getSelectedText()
   

3. The returned text is "line 1line 2line 3"
4. The length of string is 18. While in chrome it is 21

Expected result ¶

The returned text should have \n characters

Actual result ¶

The returned text is "line 1line 2line 3" The length of string is 18. While in chrome it is 21

Other details (browser, OS, CKEditor version, installed plugins) ¶

Chrome: The returned text is "line 1\nline 2\nline 3"
IE11: The returned text is "line 1line 2line 3"

[Jakub Ś]

Problem can be reproduced in IE browsers from CKEditor 3.6.1 (when getSelectedText was introduced).

This method uses native selection methods and in IE something like below is executed:

console.log(CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.document.getSelection()._.cache.nativeSel.toString());

This can be simplified to:

// Get native selection and change it to string
console.log(CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.window.$.getSelection().toString());

It looks like the native toString() method for native selection returns text without line breaks.

This will require some research but from what I have checked for this test case a much better would be using focusNode.innerText which returns text with line breaks.

console.log(CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.window.$.getSelection().focusNode.innerText);