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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 584789
Owner:
inactive
Closed: May 2016
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OS: Android
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Unable to move selected text by drag and drop

Reported by lquinn@blackberry.com, Apr 21 2016

Issue description

Device name: Nexus 5

From "Settings > About Chrome"
Application version: 51.0.2704.10
OS: Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5 Build/MOB30D

Steps to reproduce:
(1) Go to any Web page with a text input field.
(2) Type in the text input field.
(3) Try to use the tip described at http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/06/23/quick-tip-press-and-hold-selected-text-in-android-edit-boxes-to-move-it-around/ : "When writing in an editable text box on Android, users can highlight a word or chunk of text, then press and hold to drag it around."

Expected result:
Consistency with Android text selection gestures would be nice.

Actual result:
It's not possible to drag text around in Web pages' input fields. It does work in Chrome's omnibar though.



 
Components: Blink>TextSelection
Owner: aelias@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 2 by aelias@chromium.org, May 27 2016

Cc: aelias@chromium.org
Owner: hush@chromium.org
Summary: Unable to move selected text by drag and drop (was: Unable to move selected text by dragging)
I see a "drag shadow" so I'm pretty sure this based on https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/drag-drop.html.  I think this in scope of hush@'s work for  http://crbug.com/584789  under "3. drag text within a TextArea, InputField etc within the same webview".  hush@, feel free to duplicate or mark blocking.

Comment 3 by hush@chromium.org, May 27 2016

That's right. The work to support this feature on Android is being done.

Comment 4 by hush@chromium.org, May 31 2016

Mergedinto: 584789
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)

Comment 5 by tkent@chromium.org, Oct 12 2016

Components: -Blink>TextSelection Blink>Editing>Selection

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