GetSelectedElement returns null in IE and Chrome, BUG?

alfonsoml wrote:Given a node, you can easily get its parent: http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/s ... #getParent
now you can check if it's the node that you want, or if you want to keep on searching or anything else.

Great suggestion but the problem is that GetStartElement() is not consistent either!
For example (Chrome):
user has a table that contains many lists (it happens )
user wants to target ul and clicks ul (the elementspath)
-> the first LI is selected, we can select the parent and everything is ok, right?
if the user wants to target the table row they click on the "tr" element
-> a table > tbody > tr > td > br element is returned - one that doesn't even exist in the DOM!
--> how do we find out what he wanted to select?
if the user clicks on the table element, the same nonexistant br is returned
if the user clicks the tbody element, the table element is returned.
I'm getting dizzy.

I'm thinking if this won't be fixed I'll have a look if I can fix it myself or something, but if I cant I have no idea what to do. The bug is 13 months old (previous comment is equally old) with a priority of Normal so I'm a bit afraid...

getSelectedElement will return only elements handled as "object" by the browser

defines that it returns a {CKEDITOR.dom.element}, which I thought could be a representation of most, if not any DOM element? I fail to see how an image would be of that type and a paragraph wouldn't.

I did do a little digging and where the elementpaths handles clicks events I find access to the element/object like I would want GetSelectedElement() to do:

function onClick(elementIndex) {
   editor.focus();
   var element = editor._.elementsPath.list[elementIndex];
   debug(element);
   if (element.is('body')) {
       var range = new CKEDITOR.dom.range(editor.document);
       range.selectNodeContents(element);
       range.select();
   }
   else
       editor.getSelection().selectElement(element);
}

When I debug the element variable it's almost what I would want GetSelectedElement() to return. On Firefox it seems to be the reference to the actual DOM element and on Chrome it seems to be a CKEDITOR.dom.element, like HTMLParagraphElement. Both would work in my case as I could work with that, but I'm a little hesitant to go poke around the source. I think a workaround would be to set a silly global variable like var __ElementpathClicked = element; there and then in my code check if that is set, read the value and then unset it... seems like a hack and I really want to avoid them if a better solution is available, so I'll wait a while for replies.

alfonsoml wrote:
In a general way when you have a selection marked by the pipes as this

<p>this |is <span>some text</span> in the| content

Which is the "selected element"?
is not the p because it's not fully selected, and it's not the span because there's also text selected beyond its boundaries.