- From: Leif Arne Storset <lstorset@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:19:28 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
André Luís <me@andr3.net> skreiv Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:36:08 +0200 > On a related albeit a bit offtopic-ish note (apologize for the hijack), > block-level links have a "defect" of disabling text selection. > > Tab (or anyone else, for that matter), > > given your experience, where do you think this "problem" is best > tackled? The what-wg, here (www-style), bug reports on all user-agent > trackers...? > > And by block level links I'm referring to <a> with display:block; or <a> > with block level elements inside (as permitted by the HTML5 spec). > > Now, if you have a paragraph (or a long portion), that text is pretty > much unselectable on all user agents apart from mobile, which can cause > frustration when using them. I feel ignored. ;) Opera has long allowed selecting link text, whether the link's box is block or inline. Since we recently added support for HTML Drag and Drop, we had to add heuristics to allow actually dragging the link. Now, dragging in an inline direction selects text, while dragging in a block direction drags the link. This solution may be usable for other UAs as well, but as always, opinions will differ on heuristics (both "which" and "whether"). I agree with Tab that this is best handled with the UA vendors, rather than in a specification. -- Leif Arne Storset Layout Developer, Opera Software Oslo, Norway
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