RESOLVED WONTFIX 56905
Cannot select multiple non-adjacent text selections 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56905
Summary Cannot select multiple non-adjacent text selections
Elliott Seyler
Reported 2011-03-23 01:22:32 PDT
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
Comment 1 2011-03-23 01:30:48 PDT
@rniwa any idea?
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 2 2011-03-23 02:04:53 PDT
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
Comment 3 2011-03-23 08:46:48 PDT
I'm sure that this was discussed in Bugzilla before, but I can't find a duplicate.
Ryosuke Niwa
Comment 4 2011-03-23 09:10:02 PDT
(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
Comment 5 2011-09-19 12:23:36 PDT
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.
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