Have had the habit of ticking this off for a while.
Got a request recently to make some texts selectable, to be able to copy them etc. Reasonable, it is… for ‘the web’
Seems to be like this now:
Create a new Hype text element, add some text… hit test and try it in Safari, Chrome, Firefox – just works.
Uncheck ‘Allow text selection’… test again… = not selectable (ALL FINE)
Then back again to ‘Allow text selection’…
Can’t make text selection possible again for that element.
Yes, feels lika a bug.
Tested a bit more. Lets say a text element is within a group… with a group… and so on.
And the ‘Allow text selection’ has been ticked off for the group/div elements… see no other reasonable way out, other than create that structure from scratch again, with the default settings, not touch it.
Might work to add a CSS class somehow for the construct and add external CSS with overrides, as a ‘hack’. Unsure if it is the ‘pointer-events:none’ or something like ‘user-select’ that would be the fix…
Oh wow, I was just hitting this issue. That’s when I went searching. The text isn’t selectable easily. If I try to select a word, such as double-clicking it specifically, it doesn’t work. To highlight the text, I have to select from way outside the box and drag way to the other side.
And yeah, I noticed that re-enabling the “allow text selection” (user-select) option wasn’t having the intended results. That’s when I found this thread. I was expecting it to be from years ago. Nope, it’s only a few weeks old.
