1884472 - Selection gaps are not painted with the expected Selection pseudoelement color

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

WebKit recently changed this in this bug: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263658

Basically, highlighting the text in this test-case will now color the gap between the lines red as well: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=468331

Firefox and Chrome do not seem to match this behavior, and there are apparently no web platform tests covering it, so I though it would be good to see whether it's worth aligning on this behavior.

Comment 1

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

It seems like WebKit had some kind of bug where they used two different colors in the test-case linked above. I'm confused, is that what you see on Firefox and Chrome? It isn't here...

Comment 2

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Attachment: highlighted.png

Interesting. Here's what I see when I ctrl-A to highlight in each browser now.

Comment 3

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

Attachment: Older safari.

I think we should probably close this?

Comment 4

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Yeah, we might as well. Thanks for checking!