245491 - Unable to highlight / select text that is inserted using the :before and :after pseudo-elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12460

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Kevin Ar18]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040601 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040601 Firefox/0.8.0+

When you use the :before or :after pseudo-elements in css, the text added by
these two pseudo-elements is not selectable / highlightable.
I will attach a testcase in reply to this.

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"The :before and :after pseudo-elements"
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#before-and-after

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Kevin Ar18]

Attachment: Example of problem

Try to select the red or blue text added by the :before and :after
pseudo-elements.

Actual results:
The text is unselecteable except for what was originally in the body tag (the
black text).

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

I think this is a duplicate of bug 12460.

Comment 3

[Kevin Ar18]

I believe you are right.  Thank you for the information.

Marking as a duplicate....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12460 ***