Bug 56905
| Summary: | Cannot select multiple non-adjacent text selections | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Elliott Seyler <emhs08> |
| Component: | HTML Editing | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | Normal | CC: | abarth, ap, ayg, enrica, mjs, rniwa, rolandsteiner |
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 528+ (Nightly build) | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
Elliott Seyler
In the latest stable and dev versions of Google Chrome, as well as in the latest stable Safari, I am unable to use ctrl+click/cmd+click to select a second/third/etc. range of text. Normally, when one has selected a range of text and wishes to select a second, one holds the ctrl (Win/Linux) or cmd (Mac) key and click-highlights a second range of text, resulting in two non-adjacent ranges selected. I can no longer do this, on any page, in any of the aforementioned browsers.
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Adam Barth
@rniwa any idea?
Ryosuke Niwa
WebKit does not support non-contiguous selection, and we do not currently plan to support it in the near future. I don't think this was ever possible on WebKit.
Alexey Proskuryakov
I'm sure that this was discussed in Bugzilla before, but I can't find a duplicate.
Ryosuke Niwa
(In reply to comment #3)
> I'm sure that this was discussed in Bugzilla before, but I can't find a duplicate.
I don't remember the bug number either but the feature was also discussed on webkit-dev: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2010-April/012163.html. See Maciej's response.
Ryosuke Niwa
Firefox wants to drop the support for non-contiguous. There are a lot of problems associated with multi-range selection so I don't think we want to add a support.