Working in One Bit

Re:Working in One Bit by MauranKilom on Saturday August 21, 2021 @01:15PM (#28258682)

Off-topic, but how and why does attempting to directly select text from this post not work (it just drags the whole content as if it were an image)? It appears to be normal HTML behind the scenes, and if you start a drag e.g. between paragraphs it selects text normally (well, almost invisibly, but that's just styling).

FF 91.0.1 if that matters...

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Re:Working in One Bit by wizzwizz4 on Saturday August 21, 2021 @01:18PM (#28258706)

Selection is styled the same colour as normal text, looks like.

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Re:Working in One Bit by chrismorgan on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:33PM (#28262386)

  .inner_column ::selection {
    color: #282c2e;
    background: #c8e0e8;
  }

General advice for web developers: don’t override selection colours for aesthetic reasons, it tends to harm accessibility: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::selection...

::selection is more or less one of the mistakes of the past that I wish browser makers would agree to kill off. I wish Firefox had at least an about:config switch to disable it.

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Re:Working in One Bit by hansvm on Saturday August 21, 2021 @01:22PM (#28258743)

Nice catch! FWIW on my machine the background is the same but the font changes colors slightly when selected.

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