RESOLVED INVALID21960
Chrome/Safari selects the region outside the element 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21960
Summary Chrome/Safari selects the region outside the element
Jon@Chromium
Reported 2008-10-29 15:58:45 PDT
Issue originated in Chromium bugs, see http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=3527 IE and FF selects only the region inside the red box but Chrome/Safari does select the region outside. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <body> <div style="margin: 20px auto; width: 740px;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', sans-serif; border: 2px solid red">Only area with in div region should get selected. But the region that lies outside the div also gets selected.</div> </body> </html> See the attached reductions.
Attachments
Reduction (334 bytes, text/html)
2008-10-29 15:59 PDT, Jon@Chromium 		no flags
Details
Reduction (quirks mode) (269 bytes, text/html)
2008-10-29 16:00 PDT, Jon@Chromium 		no flags
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Jon@Chromium
Comment 1 2008-10-29 15:59:35 PDT
Created attachment 24759 [details] Reduction
Jon@Chromium
Comment 2 2008-10-29 16:00:22 PDT
Created attachment 24760 [details] Reduction (quirks mode)
Ahmad Saleem
Comment 3 2023-05-05 14:18:03 PDT
Isn't this intentional behavior of WebKit / Safari to have gapless selection, hence, we have empty space with 'selection' color painted as well, while Chrome now has 'gapped' selection, so only have selection around text? Can someone please confirm whether we need to fix it or not? Or we can mark this duplicate of other 'gapped' selection bug?
alan
Comment 4 2023-05-05 19:23:28 PDT
(In reply to Ahmad Saleem from comment #3) > Isn't this intentional behavior of WebKit / Safari to have gapless > selection, hence, we have empty space with 'selection' color painted as > well, while Chrome now has 'gapped' selection, so only have selection around > text? Correct!
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