778891 - Cannot select result text (answer) in new Google calculator

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Adam Guthrie]

Google recently added a new calculator widget that appears on the results page if you search for terms that can be calculated.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to http://www.google.com/ and search 1+1=
2. Try to select "2" in the result area either by double clicking or click-dragging

Results:

Text cannot be selected. 

Expected results:

Text is selected and can be copied, etc.

Additional notes:

This works in Chrome.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

confirming with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14a1
Build identifier: 20120730003010

Comment 2

[Brad]

can also select the text correctly in IE9

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page is using the non-standard -moz-user-select property, so this might well just be an evangelism issue.  A minimal testcase is:

  <span style="-moz-user-select: text; float: left">2</span>

Ehsan, is that supposed to work, or is this a Google bug?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Er, wait.  That's not quite right.  Digging more.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actual minimal testcase:

  <div style="-moz-user-select: none">
    <span style="-moz-user-select: text;">2</span>
  </div>

I believe -moz-user-select:none in fact overrides any -moz-user-select values on kids, so this is working as designed...

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

Thanks, Boris. There is some related discussion in bug 648624 that agrees with your assessment and suggests using -moz-user-select: -moz-none on the parent, which would allow the children to override it.

If I get time, I'll try and find somewhere I can complain to Google about this.

->INVALID

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I sent mail about this.

Comment 8

[Adam Guthrie]

Thanks. I just posted a reply on the Google Product Forums, where it appears a Google employee is looking into this: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/websearch/calculator/websearch/3ue0BkpRkbw/c5-9b76D9KIJ.