[Laszlo-dev] still don't know why the text selection gets cleared when you move the mouse out of a textfield in Firefox

Max Carlson max at laszlosystems.com
Tue Jun 2 12:26:36 PDT 2009


It's probably related to focus.  Try disabling the activate_on_mouseover 
quirk.

Henry Minsky wrote:
> In Firefox, if you drag-select a region of a selectable text field, the 
> highlighted selection is cleared as
> soon as you move the mouse out of the text field,as soon as you lift the 
> mouse button.
> 
> This doesn't happen in Safari or IE7 (I'm running with a patch to make 
> text selection work
> in Safari and IE7...)
> 
> If it's not a mouseover handler, maybe it's tied to some event handler 
> that changes the cursor from
> I-beam to pointer?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
> 
> 

-- 
Regards,
Max Carlson
OpenLaszlo.org


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