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Selecting text is impossible in Chrome
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make...@gmail.com,
May 17 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. select a text with mouse click from left/right side from a single line What is the expected behavior? Select only the selected text. What went wrong? Chrome selects the whole page. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 58.0.3029.110 Channel: stable OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version:
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May 18 2017
Tested the issue on windows 10 & 7 using M58 #58.0.3029.110 and issue is not reproduced using the below steps : 1. launched chrome and selected the text with mouse click and able to select the text left or right and entire page was not selected. Attached screencast for reference. @makedir-- Could you please check attached screencast and provide us the .mp4 file as we cannot open the provided .flv file. Thanks!
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May 18 2017
Are you nuts? It even happens in your own video at 0:07 ... this site is unbelievable.
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May 18 2017
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "hdodda@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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May 18 2017
this is truly amusing... the first two "examples" in your video arent in the category of this problem, and then the third one is, and it totally happens the moment you do the 3rd click selecting at 0:07. Truly amusing...
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May 18 2017
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May 18 2017
Working totally normal and as expected in Edge...
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May 18 2017
Working totally normal and as expected in Firefox...
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May 19 2017
I can confirm the reported behaviour as well. Also it is clearly visible in your video at 0:07. @hdodda
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May 19 2017
This is an old/ancient and well-known problem: the selection starts in the actually clicked DOM element. I wouldn't be surprised there is an existing issue on crbug.
Let's consider this DOM tree mockup:
empty-box-displayed-as-left-column-via-CSS
center-col
text1
text2
text3
empty-box-displayed-as-right-column-via-CSS
When you select by clicking to the right of "text2" what really happens is that the browser naively (dumbly?) starts with "empty-box-displayed-as-right-column-via-CSS" and extends it to "text2" in a linear fashion. In other words "text3" gets selected as well.
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May 25 2017
Requesting some one from blink team to look in to this issue.
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May 25 2017
#c10, >This is an old/ancient and well-known problem Yes, this is well known problem caused by visible position canonicalization.
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May 25 2017
"Ah yes, this is an ancient problem, thehehe" *marking as duplicate and throwing away the link*. 2 years later: some magazine reports about this, devs panic-ally promises to fix it in a few days days. |
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Comment 1 by ligim...@chromium.org
, May 17 2017