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Status: Fixed
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Closed: Jul 2016
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Cannot copy to clipboard from MD About page

Project Member Reported by chowse@chromium.org, Jul 12 2016

Issue description

It does not appear possible to select text and copy it from the new MD pages, including the new about page. While it might be necessary in most places, being able to select and copy your current version of Chrome seems like something that would come up often when debugging browser issues.

Steps to repro:
1. Go to the About page (from Chrome > About Google Chrome or chrome://help/).
2. Try to select and copy the Chrome version number.

Expected result:
The text should be selectable and copyable.

Actual result:
The I-beam cursor appears when hovering over the text, but it cannot be selected or copied.

 

Comment 1 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jul 12 2016

Cc: tbuck...@chromium.org
Owner: dpa...@chromium.org
@tbuckley: This request seems very reasonable. I have a CL fixing it at https://codereview.chromium.org/2141063003. Could you verify that we want this?

Comment 2 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jul 12 2016

 Issue 627504  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 3 by shrike@chromium.org, Jul 12 2016

Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Labels: Hotlist-MD-Settings-About
Yep, this is desirable but only for a few parts of the About page: https://screenshot.googleplex.com/tWjqK7NGvMm

Comment 5 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jul 12 2016

How about all the information residing under "detailed build info"?

Making specific sections seletable is definitely doable, but I am wondering if it is worth the extra effort of hunting such sections one by one. Is it considered bad UX to have the entire page selectable?
Cc: bettes@chromium.org
+bettes
My opinion is yes, it is undesirable to have everything selectable.

For the detailed build info page, all light-gray text should also be selectable.

Comment 7 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jul 12 2016

Sounds good. I also see now that this matches the behavior of the old About page (not everything is selectable).

Comment 8 by dpa...@chromium.org, Jul 13 2016

Status: Started (was: Assigned)
Project Member

Comment 9 by bugdroid1@chromium.org, Jul 13 2016

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/6c8e8a9e0b13fd13fe29e310763a76d0cbc2221a

commit 6c8e8a9e0b13fd13fe29e310763a76d0cbc2221a
Author: dpapad <dpapad@chromium.org>
Date: Wed Jul 13 20:00:29 2016

MD Settings: Allow copying text to clipboard from the About page.

BUG= 627578 
CQ_INCLUDE_TRYBOTS=tryserver.chromium.linux:closure_compilation

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2141063003
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#405248}

[modify] https://crrev.com/6c8e8a9e0b13fd13fe29e310763a76d0cbc2221a/chrome/browser/resources/settings/about_page/about_page.html
[modify] https://crrev.com/6c8e8a9e0b13fd13fe29e310763a76d0cbc2221a/chrome/browser/resources/settings/about_page/detailed_build_info.html

Status: Fixed (was: Started)
Cc: dpa...@chromium.org michae...@chromium.org dbeam@chromium.org
 Issue 626418  has been merged into this issue.

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