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prawdziwy-sok
prawdziwy-sok

Reputation: 111

HTML SVG text selection in Chromium not working

I have a problem - when I try to select a text in element, only the first character gets highlighted. I'm running Chromium 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit). Problem does not exist on Firefox. Basic HTML: 

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
  <svg version="1.1">
    <g>
      <text y=20>
        wabalabadub dub
      </text>
    </g>
  </svg>
</body>
</html>

Text should be selected whole.

When I doubleclick a word, it gets selected whole, but I need to be able to select more than 1 word. So, does anyone know a solution to this problem? Or a workaround:) Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 120

Answers (2)

prawdziwy-sok
prawdziwy-sok

Reputation: 111

Apparently, its a bug in Chromium - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=897752 . Thanks for the help guys.

Upvotes: 0

ccprog
ccprog

Reputation: 21811

The error seeems to be visual in nature: Ctrl-c to the clipboard, and not only the highlighted letter is there, but everything you moved your mouse over; even extending/reducing your selection with Shift+arrow seems to work correctly.

The best I can come up with for now is to style the selection, but choices seem to be limited:

text::selection { fill:blue }

is more or less the only one that I got to work, but supresses all background coloration (in Chromium, Firefox ignores the rule). background-color, text-decoration or font-weight properties have no effect, unfortunately.

Upvotes: 1

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