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Text selection in CustomLayout

Rafał Tadra
6 years ago Apr 18, 2016 10:46pm

Hi there,
I'm going crazy trying to figure out why you cannot highlight (select) text using CustomLayout. Simple example, I create CustomLayout from file which contains only

<div>Test</div>

and i cannot highlight and copy text! Please help, I'm losing my mind trying to get it work...
 

Susan Osgood
3 years ago Nov 22, 2019 8:17pm

Hi All, Does anyone have any thoughts about this? I am using Vaadin 8.9.0 and facing this exact problem with CustomLayout, much to the dismay of my user base.

Any suggestion on how to fix it are greatly appreciated.

Susan Osgood
3 years ago Nov 22, 2019 8:57pm

Discovered that we can add user-select: text; css to the div tag, making the text within copy-and-paste-able.