1296261 - Clicking on the content of :before style does not clear selected text content

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect, P5)

Description

[joachim.seminck]

Attachment: FF_Issue.mov

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

https://jsfiddle.net/6grvh2xh/

1/ First select the text "Select me first" by dragging the cursor. 
2/ Click on the "Click me, text stays selected" 
3/ Click on the "Click me, text is cleared"



Actual results:

In step 2, clicking on the "Click me, text stays selected" does not clear the selected text.


Expected results:

In step 2, clicking on the "Click me, text stays selected" I would expect the selected text to be cleared. So that the behaviour is the same as with other browsers.

See also attached video.

Comment 1

[Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]]

likely a part of bug 12460.

Comment 2

[Xidorn Quan [:xidorn] UTC+11]

Not really part of bug 12460. On Blink, you cannot select text on generated content either, but clicking them could still clear the existing selection.

Comment 3

[Jens Stutte [:jstutte]]

Bulk-downgrade of unassigned, 4 years untouched DOM/Storage bugs' priority.

If you have reason to believe this is wrong (especially for the severity), please write a comment and ni :jstutte.