296728 - CSS generated content cannot be selected and copied.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 12460

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Trying to highlight text which is generated by CSS using the content property
isn't possible. Even using the 'select all' option will miss the CSS generated
content.

At the URL provided, I attempted to highlight and copy the URL (branded IRI on
the web site) so I could browser to the source page, but this wasn't possible in
Firefox 1.0.4.

As a site note, Opera 8 worked as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to a web site which used the CSS 'content' generation property (see
example).
2. Scroll to a quote which contains a 'Source IRI' (generated by CSS).
3. Attempt to highlight the URL (branded IRI on the example web site).

Actual Results:  
Text generated by CSS isn't highlighted or selectable.

Expected Results:  
CSS generated text to be highlighted in the same manor as the static text.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: minimised testcase

try to select the url in red

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

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