Bug 244448
| Summary: | Should <button> have `user-select: none;` by default? | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | Valtteri Laitinen <dev> |
| Component: | DOM | Assignee: | Karl Dubost <karlcow> |
| Status: | NEW | ||
| Severity: | Trivial | CC: | dev, karlcow, webkit-bug-importer |
| Priority: | P2 | Keywords: | BrowserCompat, InRadar |
| Version: | Safari Technology Preview | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208677 | ||
Valtteri Laitinen
The user agent style sheet includes `user-select: none;` for <input type="button"> but not for <button>. Should we add `user-select: none;` to <button> for consistency? Or is there a good reason for the inconsistency?
To reproduce:
1. Open the following URL and see how the button text is selectable: data:text/html,Foo <button>Bar</button> Baz
2. Here the button text is unselectable: data:text/html,Foo <input type="button" value="Bar"> Baz
Other browsers:
• Neither <button> or <input type="button"> is selectable in Firefox.
• Chromium behaves like WebKit here: https://crbug.com/1356522
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Valtteri Laitinen
In fact, there’s no `user-select: none;` for <input type="button"> in the user agent style sheet, but the text is magically unselectable and cannot be made selectable with CSS.
Also, WebKit doesn’t support the unprefixed `user-select` so `-webkit-user-select` must be used.
Karl Dubost
There is a bug open on Firefox about selection and button
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1763744
which was opened because of this webcompat issue.
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/102132
Radar WebKit Bug Importer
<rdar://problem/99262559>
Karl Dubost
This should be probably filed as a spec issue.
Karl Dubost
I filed https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8228
Valtteri Laitinen
Note the css-ui spec [1] includes the following:
> The following additions are made to the UA stylesheet for HTML:
> button, meter, progress, select { user-select: none; }
[1] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui/#issue-5d851d49 (just before the inline issue)
Karl Dubost
Pull request: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/10017