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OS: Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Can not select text when the content of ::after and ::before is U+00A0

Reported by flowme...@gmail.com, Feb 14 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3012.0 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://codepen.io/flowmemo/pen/jyddxv

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1.  Open the URL.
2.  Try to select the word "ABC" by pressing and dragging your mouse.

What is the expected behavior?
You can select the whole word "ABC" in Firefox, Safari.

What went wrong?
Can not select the whole word.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? N/A 

Does this work in other browsers? Yes

Chrome version: 58.0.3012.0  Channel: canary
OS Version: OS X 10.12.3
Flash Version: 

I find this problem in GitHub's markdown. 
You can try to select 'B' in this markdown page https://gist.github.com/flowmemo/db6e57d644c8dcfe2dfc0837ca10bce0
 (make sure the 'B' is on new line).

 

Comment 1 by rtoy@chromium.org, Feb 14 2017

Components: -Blink Blink>Editing>Selection
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Confirm that the word ABC cannot be selected with mouse.

Also note that it can be selected programmatically with Selection.setBaseAndExtent.

Comment 3 by yosin@chromium.org, Oct 4 2017

Labels: Pri-3
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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Oct 4

Labels: Hotlist-Recharge-Cold
Status: Untriaged (was: Available)
This issue has been Available for over a year. If it's no longer important or seems unlikely to be fixed, please consider closing it out. If it is important, please re-triage the issue.

Sorry for the inconvenience if the bug really should have been left as Available.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)

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