* Input fields (input areas, input dialogs and search fields) are the only Building Blocks with selectable text. * HTML elements like buttons or links, or events like ontouchstart or onclick, should trigger the action when tapped rather than triggering text selection.

The Gecko work is close to completion, the remaining part is to fix test case failures then pref it on in m-c bug 1092888. After the bug landed, text selection and cut/copy/paste can be triggered in apps on both editable and non-editable elements. Gaia per app work in v2.2 is to follow UX guideline and leverage CSS -moz-user-select https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select to make certain elements non-selectable. Before Gecko is pref on in m-c, Gaia can manually switch it on by the following two pref to test in advance: pref("selectioncaret.enabled", on); pref("selectioncaret.noneditable", on);

In principle there should be 0 (code) work to do here as far as I understand it: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/ftu/style/style.css#L9 has the -moz-user-select rule and with some cursory testing just now I'm getting the expected results. We'll need a pretty thorough QA run though to confirm. Lets discuss when that should happen because we have a fairly large patch in the wings (bug 1067462) that touches a lot of markup and CSS and I would hate to cause double the testing work.

This is a 2.2 feature.

Following system app's lead, disable text selection for all but the explicitly editable elements. I tested without the patch (we get selection and copy/paste menu for all text in FTU) and with the patch (only editable fields are selectable). Not sure if there's value in automated tests for this - it would be difficult to write a reliable UI test and its quick to check manually.

Comment on attachment 8537998 [details] [PullReq] sfoster:ftu-selection-patterns-bug-1092965 to mozilla-b2g:master Still getting used to autolander, sorry for noise

Comment on attachment 8537998 [details] [PullReq] sfoster:ftu-selection-patterns-bug-1092965 to mozilla-b2g:master Works great, thanks.

thanks fcampo. Autolander, you can take it from here I hope!

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Merged to master: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/192bb2ac26cac23ac2b49caad17517f0be68c13f

This issue is cannot be verified fixed on Flame 3.0 due to bugs 1131838, 1131852 being open. I will try to verify this bug again once the dependencies have been resolved.

This issue has been verified successfully on Flame v2.2, user is able to select text in input fields (input areas, input dialogs and search fields) and allowing them cut/copy/paste. See attachment:screenshot.png Rate:0/5 Flame 2.2 build: Build ID 20150225002505 Gaia Revision ca64f2fe145909f31af266b1730874051ba76c78 Gaia Date 2015-02-24 22:06:53 Gecko Revision https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g37_v2_2/rev/16804008c29f Gecko Version 37.0 Device Name flame Firmware(Release) 4.4.2 Firmware(Incremental) eng.cltbld.20150225.041814 Firmware Date Wed Feb 25 04:18:25 EST 2015 Bootloader L1TC000118D0