330038 - Cannot Select SVG Text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 292498

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Doug Schepers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

As per the SVG Spec, you must be able to select text in an SVG, even in the middle of a link (for accessibility, among other reasons). In MozSVG's implementation, you cannot yet select text at all. In addition, there should be a text selection indicator, such as a box around the select glyph and perhaps a color-reversal. Mousing over selectable text should change the pointer to a selection bar. 

Note that this is different than the ability to copy text, or the abilty to find text using the search facility, for which I will file separate bugs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load sample file
2. Try to select text
3. Fail

Actual Results:  
Cannot select text, no bar pointer, no visual indicator of selection.

Expected Results:  
Mousing over selectable text should change the pointer to a selection bar. Mousing down and dragging over text (even mid-link) should create a visual selection cue.

This is very important for accessibility and for many WebApps.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Duplicate of bug 292498.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 292498 ***