Bug 208682 – Drag from a -webkit-user-select:none element should not start selection

• Status: NEW
• Component: CSS

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

The spec <https://www.w3.org/TR/css-ui-4/#propdef-user-select> is clear in this respect:
none
    The UA must not allow selections to be started in this element. 


So, as a fix to this consider merging chromium patch: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/f6dcdcf4917ba56f5576ef7d5d11d869630d2760

Test case from https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=481985
> Open http://jsbin.com/zufeva/1/
> Start dragging on the first box (-webkit-user-select:none) and drag into the second (no -webkit-user-select).
> IE and Firefox appear to implement their user-select variants differently where it controls whether selection can be STARTED.  So there, if you start in the first box, you won't select text anywhere.

[Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez]

(In reply to Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez from comment #0)
> 
> So, as a fix to this consider merging chromium patch:
> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/
> f6dcdcf4917ba56f5576ef7d5d11d869630d2760
> 

This fix can't be merged as such. It causes issues on the web-inspector, the text on the console becomes non selectable. The same happened on chromium after merging it (it was reverted later). See: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615227

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/91955574>

[Tim Nguyen (:ntim)]

Created attachment 457916 [details]
Patch

[Tim Nguyen (:ntim)]

The Web inspector issue is still reproducible.

[Tim Nguyen (:ntim)]

STR for the WI issue:
1) Open DevTools, open Console
2) "window" and press enter
3) Try to select the logged text by clicking and dragging

[Tim Nguyen (:ntim)]

This was the Chromium change that ended up getting merged:

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/570246/16/third_party/WebKit/Source/core/dom/Node.cpp

along with: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/d541129f1b272eb3e611b59b5e12dd0be0a4ba58