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May 12, 2024 1 year ago
Frenchi
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Vivisect

i think i brought this up several years ago but it's still an issue. saved outfits have these two text boxes on their page, "Share Outfit URL" and "Share Outfit on Forums." they're set up as if you should be able to highlight the text and copy-paste it, or click on the text box to copy it to your clipboard. however, you can do neither, which makes these text boxes completely useless and confusing. instead, you have to manually copy the URL, or the outfit ID number from the end of the URL, and type out the sCode for it yourself—which is fine, but then just get rid of the text boxes!

it looks like the issue has something to do with the way the user-select property is set; the "all" value is supposed to make it so that all the text in the box gets highlighted when you click on it, but in this case, it's actually preventing you from selecting any of the text. not sure if there's something else in the code causing a conflict or what, but as far as i can tell, simply removing that "user-select: all" line entirely fixes the problem.

May 12, 2024 1 year ago
Lypsyl
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Those boxes are very finicky, but I copy/paste all the time. Sometimes clicking in the box will automatically highlight the text and you can use Ctrl+C to copy. If it doesn't highlight when you click in the box, which also happens a lot, you can right click in the box and select that way (though that's dependent on your browser options). Other times, when it won't highlight, just right clicking in the box causes it to highlight and I then select the copy option directly without first needing to "select all".

I agree the boxes are glitchy and need to be fixed, but there are ways to select and copy. Of course not all browsers may have these options on right clicking. I use FF, but I'm pretty sure Chrome also has the options, though I'm unfamiliar with other browsers.

May 12, 2024 1 year ago
Frenchi
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@ Lypsyl i use firefox on mac and i've never been able to select the text in those boxes. i've tried clicking directly on the text, in the white space around the edges, clicking once/twice/thrice, clicking and dragging... there is genuinely no way for me to highlight the text. i've even tried clicking and then pressing cmd+c in case the text was somehow "invisibly" highlighted, or right-clicking the text box and choosing "copy" from the drop down menu, but that also does nothing. the only way i'm able to get it to work is by opening up the CSS console and editing the text box properties.

May 12, 2024 1 year ago
Saturnine
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I've never been able to select the text on the boxes either.

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May 13, 2024 1 year ago
Ossuary
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in my experience (mac, desktop firefox), ctrl+click always selects all and brings up a menu which allows you to copy the text. its a little weird that you have to do it that way, but its consistent. on mobile its much finickier, but its essentially the same idea. it should be highlight-able normally though, and its bizarre that it isn't.

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May 13, 2024 1 year ago
Egypt
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If you right click the text and click 'Select All' it should highlight it. Does that work for you? I use firefox too.

Edit: Oh, sorry I see that's what Lypsl suggested and you already shared it didn't work. Do you use use a newer version of Firefox? I know mine is a bit out of date... (124.0.2 (64-bit))

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May 13, 2024 1 year ago
Lypsyl
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That really sucks.

I've found strange glitches that only glitch out on certain browsers, sometimes the same browser but a different device (laptop vs. PC for example). Sometimes even different editions of the same browser. I find those glitches are not only the worst for staff to fix (because its really tough to find an error when they can't replicate the problem), but even user workarounds end up not being workable for some people.

May 13, 2024 1 year ago
Frenchi
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Vivisect

right-click > select all does actually work; i was saying JUST right-clicking like others suggested doesn't make the text selectable for me.

May 14, 2024 1 year ago
dalice
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agree! have not had it work on laptop since the beginning (use updated ff/updated chrome). if i tap on it on my phone (safari), it auto highlights so i can tap again to select copy. which i assume is the intended experience (click to highlight) on laptop as well, but it doesn't do anything and getting it to highlight with rt click > select all is 50/50.

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