NEW113584
Using position: absolute to hide span in link highlights all text below when right clicking the link 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113584
Summary Using position: absolute to hide span in link highlights all text below when ...
Ellen Herzfeld
Reported 2013-03-29 08:14:01 PDT
Created attachment 195747 [details] A page showing the problem (same as jsfiddle) W3C recommends adding a hidden span containing informative text to links like "read more". They use position: absolute to hide the span, as does html5 boilerplate using a method suggested by Jonathan Snook. However, in webkit on Mac (Safari, Chrome, and Webkit nightly) when you right click on such a link, instead of only highlighting the link itself, everything below the link is also highlighted. Very ugly... I've made a fiddle to show this, and have attached the same in a html file. I think I found a workaround using display: inline-block instead of position:absolute, but still.
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A page showing the problem (same as jsfiddle) (2.84 KB, text/html)
2013-03-29 08:14 PDT, Ellen Herzfeld 		no flags
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Samuel White
Comment 1 2014-02-07 11:21:54 PST
Moving out of accessibility.
Ahmad Saleem
Comment 2 2023-09-19 14:25:46 PDT
I am able to reproduce this bug in 'Safari Technology Preview 178', while right-clicking on "Read more", everything below get selected as well. Changing it to 'New' from 'Unconfirmed' and also changing from 'New Bugs' to 'Layout & Rendering' due to 'Selection' being rendering stuff.
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