1707925 - jQuery Mobile Swipe event interferes with text selection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1712339

(Core :: DOM: Events, defect)

Description

[Inkbug]

Attachment: Test Case

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0

Steps to reproduce:

I attempted to select text (by holding down the mouse and dragging) in the example test-case provided, once in the first line, and once in the second line.

Actual results:

In the first line, only a few characters were selected, while in the second everything got selected.

Expected results:

In both lines, everything I dragged over should be selected.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::DOM: Events' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

I can repro this on my everyday profile but not on a fresh profile, which is interesting...

Comment 3

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

(In reply to Kagami :saschanaz from comment #2)

I can repro this on my everyday profile but not on a fresh profile, which is interesting...

This was because I have HTTPS-only mode on my daily profile so didn't get a mixed content error, while a fresh profile has no HTTPS-only and thus gets one.

Fixing the <script> line as <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> makes the behavior consistent on every browser, and the expected result is "only a few characters are selected", caused by event.preventDefault() inside content.move, which is called by a mousemove event listener.

Does this help you?

Comment 4

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

Attachment: Testcase with https

Comment 5

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

Attachment: Original testcase with https

Comment 6

[Mirko Brodesser (:mbrodesser) -- not reading bugmails currently]

The used jQuery version is very old, from 2014 or 2015. Unfortunately the example code doesn't run when using the newest jQuery version.

Comment 7

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

This is now fixed by reverting bug 1674658.