diff --git a/testing/web-platform/tests/html/semantics/forms/textfieldselection/selection-not-application.html b/testing/web-platform/tests/html/semantics/forms/textfieldselection/selection-not-application.html
index aa98a030a83b8..7771c3cf312d5 100644
--- a/testing/web-platform/tests/html/semantics/forms/textfieldselection/selection-not-application.html
+++ b/testing/web-platform/tests/html/semantics/forms/textfieldselection/selection-not-application.html
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <meta charset=utf-8>
+<meta name=variant content="">
+<meta name=variant content="?week,month">
 <title>text field selection</title>
 <link rel="author" title="Denis Ah-Kang" href="mailto:denis@w3.org">
 <link rel=help href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#textFieldSelection">
@@ -7,18 +9,19 @@
 <script src="/resources/testharnessreport.js"></script>
 <div id="log"></div>
 <script>
-  var nonApplicableTypes = ["hidden", "email", "datetime-local", "date", "month", "week", "time", "number", "range", "color", "checkbox", "radio", "file", "submit", "image", "reset", "button"];
+  var nonApplicableTypes = ["hidden", "email", "datetime-local", "date", "time", "number", "range", "color", "checkbox", "radio", "file", "submit", "image", "reset", "button"];
   var applicableTypes = ["text", "search", "tel", "url", "password", "aninvalidtype", null];
 
+  if (location.search) {
+    // If the <meta name=variant> tag used is non-empty, then use it instead of
+    // nonApplicableTypes.
+    nonApplicableTypes = location.search.substr(1).split(',');
+  }
+
   nonApplicableTypes.forEach(function(type){
     var el = document.createElement("input");
     el.type = type;
 
-    if (el.type != type) {
-      // Type is not supported - don't bother with the following checks.
-      return;
-    }
-
     test(() => {
       assert_equals(el.selectionStart, null);
     }, `selectionStart on an input[type=${type}] returns null`);
