Initial focus in a date field does not select the text nor does it have a selectAll method

[BrianSiimAndersenEG]

If you have a DateField and focus it, the date string will not be selected. This also applies to TextInput, but for TextInput there's a selectAll method.

Could you automatically select the text for a focused date field or implement a selectAll method for DateField. If you tabulate out of a date field and tabulate back, the text wil automatically be selected, so why not for the initial focus?

import java.time.LocalDate;

import com.vaadin.server.VaadinRequest;
import com.vaadin.ui.DateField;
import com.vaadin.ui.UI;

public class ParsableDateFieldTestUI extends UI {

    @Override
    protected void init(VaadinRequest vaadinRequest) {
        DateField dateField = new DateField();
        dateField.setValue(LocalDate.now());
        dateField.focus();
        setContent(dateField);
    }
}

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[BrianSiimAndersenEG]

This is still relevant.

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[BrianSiimAndersenEG]

This is still an issue in Vaadin 8.6.3.

[TatuLund]

This is rather interesting finding. I agree, the auto select is very handy on focus (and I have implemented such feature in GridFastNavigation add-on) Just to note it should be actually very easy to implement the selectAll in date field, since in the client, since the text field is visible and has selectAll method.