Bug 242861

Summary:

REGRESSION (Safari 15.4): SVG Text Selection not usable due to selection rect not positioned properly, affects Internet Archive books

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Drini Cami <cdrini>

Component:

SVG

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED

Severity:

Critical

CC:

ahmad.saleem792, karlcow, megan_gardner, mmaxfield, sabouhallawa, simon.fraser, webkit-bug-importer, wenson_hsieh, z233, zalan, zimmermann

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

Safari 15

Hardware:

iPhone / iPad

OS:

iOS 15

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Sample HTML with SVG for reproducing the error	none
Photos showing behaviour in Safari 15.3, 15.4, and 15.5	none

Drini Cami

Reported 2022-07-18 08:58:55 PDT

Created attachment 460975 [details] Sample HTML with SVG for reproducing the error To Repro: 1. Go on an iPhone with Safari 15.4 or 15.5 2. Visit the attached file 3. Long press on "selecting" Expected: A blue rectangle with handles appears over the word "selecting" (This is what happens in Safari 15.3) Actual: A blue rectangle appears at the top of the SVG (Safari 15.4, 15.5) Note this is similar to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108837 , but not the same. This is happening for *all* SVGs, not just certain viewports/scalings of SVGs.

Attachments
Sample HTML with SVG for reproducing the error (173 bytes, text/html) 2022-07-18 08:58 PDT, Drini Cami	no flags	Details
Photos showing behaviour in Safari 15.3, 15.4, and 15.5 (150.87 KB, image/png) 2022-07-18 09:06 PDT, Drini Cami	no flags	Details
View All Add attachment proposed patch, testcase, etc.

Drini Cami

Comment 1 2022-07-18 09:06:33 PDT

Created attachment 460976 [details] Photos showing behaviour in Safari 15.3, 15.4, and 15.5

Drini Cami

Comment 2 2022-07-18 09:10:35 PDT

This has currently broken our text selection mechanism on Internet Archive books. We're getting user complaints about being unable to select text after users updated their iOS devices. Eg In other browsers and Safari 15.3, you can long press on a word to select it here: https://archive.org/details/goodytwoshoes00newyiala/page/n1/mode/1up .

Alexey Proskuryakov

Comment 3 2022-07-18 17:48:21 PDT

This reproduces on macOS too, including with STP 149.

Radar WebKit Bug Importer

Comment 4 2022-07-19 08:38:26 PDT

<rdar://problem/97261597>

Ahmad Saleem

Comment 5 2023-05-21 17:19:01 PDT

I think this seems to work fine now in Safari 16.5. @ap - can you reconfirm my testing, I checked on iPhone 13 Pro Max as well with this test case and long press on 'Selecting' works.

Karl Dubost

Comment 6 2025-12-10 04:23:13 PST

This doesn't reproduce. on iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 26.1

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