Libelektra: Elektra-web selecting text is not possible on firefox
Unfortunately, I really cannot find a way to solve this in Firefox.
In webkit based browsers, I can do onDragStart={e => e.preventDefault()} on a part of the element (in this case, only the text field) and it prevents dragging the element while still allowing text selection.
In Firefox, however, it seems to also prevent text selection, so there is no way to prevent dragging while still allowing text selection.
omnidan
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Is it important to prevent dragging?
markus2330
on 21 Mar 2018
@markus2330 if we don't prevent dragging, the whole key gets dragged instead of selecting text.
I want to be able to drag the whole key except when dragging in the text field, which is exactly what this solution does on webkit browsers, but not on firefox 馃槩
omnidan
on 21 Mar 2018
Sorry, I cannot help.
Maybe @Namoshek or @vanessaNWK know something about it.
Otherwise asking the question somewhere else might help.
markus2330
on 21 Mar 2018
Did you have luck by asking the question somewhere else?
markus2330
on 29 Mar 2018
What about a button to mark the value as workaround?
Marking the keys works, although a new-line is added to the copy-buffer.
markus2330
on 29 Mar 2018
Sorry, I forgot about this issue. Maybe disabling all default event handlers while a specific key (ctrl or alt) is pressed might work?
Namoshek
on 29 Mar 2018
@markus2330 @Namoshek I tried disabling drag & drop when alt is pressed. However, this requires a re-render of the whole tree view (not just single components of it), because all elements need to be set to not be draggable anymore. Unfortunately, this is a quite expensive operation which would get executed every time the alt key is pressed (and again when it is released!) :/
My workaround here is that I added a button to copy the current value of a key. Using keyboard shortcuts to select and cut text also works. Selecting also works fine for me on latest Chrome:
omnidan
on 30 Mar 2018
:tada: Great!
Please also test it with Firefox ESR
markus2330
on 30 Mar 2018
@markus2330 I will test all features on firefox ESR before creating the next PR :+1:
omnidan
on 30 Mar 2018
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@markus2330 @Namoshek I tried disabling drag & drop when
altis pressed. However, this requires a re-render of the whole tree view (not just single components of it), because all elements need to be set to not be draggable anymore. Unfortunately, this is a quite expensive operation which would get executed every time the alt key is pressed (and again when it is released!) :/My workaround here is that I added a button to copy the current value of a key. Using keyboard shortcuts to select and cut text also works. Selecting also works fine for me on latest Chrome: