Closed Bug 1562415 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Text selection in disabled field

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Selection
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 195361
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox67 --- affected
firefox68 --- affected
firefox69 --- affected

People

(Reporter: oxycoder, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

In Firefox i cannot select any text inside disabled=true or disabled="disabled" field.
<input disabled="disabled" name="username" value="PrettyCat" />

Actual results:

Can not select any text inside disabled html field.

Expected results:

In others browser, it is allowed to select and copy text in disabled field

Which "other browsers" exactly?

Flags: needinfo?(oxycoder)

"other browsers" is: chrome, safari, edge, internet explorer

You can check this demo: https://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=G5JI2AUOZP2U

Flags: needinfo?(oxycoder)

I tested this issue on Mac OS X 10.14 and Windows 10 x64 with FF Release 67.0.4 and FF Nightly 69.0.a1(2019-07-02) using the test page from comment 2 and I can reproduce the issue.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox67: --- → affected
status-firefox68: --- → affected
status-firefox69: --- → affected
Component: Untriaged → Selection
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Version: 67 Branch → Trunk

Thanks for the bug report. I think this is exactly the old bug 195361.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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