[Hold - $250] Firefox - Chat- Intended comment not copied to clipboard after highlighting a part of the text and selecting another message reported by @daraksha-dk

[kavimuru]

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Action Performed:

1. Go to any chat
2. Select a part of any message
3. Open the context menu for any message
4. Select "Copy to Clipboard" option
5. the selected part in 2nd step will be copied instead of the message on 3rd step

Expected Result:

the whole message should get copied for which the context menu was open

Actual Result :
Only the initial selected text is getting copied

Workaround:

unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• Web - Firefox only

Version Number: 1.2.24-1
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos:

copy.issue.mp4

Recording.865.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @daraksha-dk
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1667833739312529

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @NicMendonca (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[NicMendonca]

I am having trouble reproducing this, so asking here

[melvin-bot]

Current assignee @NicMendonca is eligible for the External assigner, not assigning anyone new.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @Santhosh-Sellavel (External)

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @tgolen (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/7972 for more details.

[NicMendonca]

Job posting: https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01062c3d4a49229c53

[s77rt]

Proposal

--- a/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionItem.js
+++ b/src/pages/home/report/ReportActionItem.js
@@ -107,6 +107,13 @@ class ReportActionItem extends Component {
         if (this.props.draftMessage) {
             return;
         }
+
+        const windowSelection = window.getSelection();
+        if (!event.target.contains(windowSelection.focusNode)) {
+            windowSelection.selectAllChildren(event.target);
+            windowSelection.removeAllRanges();
+        }
+
         const selection = SelectionScraper.getCurrentSelection();
         ReportActionContextMenu.showContextMenu(
             ContextMenuActions.CONTEXT_MENU_TYPES.REPORT_ACTION,

Pros & Cons

Pros:

• Fix the issue
• Identical behaviour on all browsers

Cons: (maybe Pros2?)

• The selected text will be deselected (currently in FF it's already being deselected due to a bug [$250] Firefox - Chat - Highlighted text disappears when selecting a part of the text and opening context menu reported by @daraksha-dk #12521)
  IMHO, I think this is a desired behaviour as keeping the text1 highlighted and copying text2 is confusing

Kooha-2022-11-08-17-43-58.mp4

[NicMendonca]

I am about to go OOO for a week, so re-assigning.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @slafortune (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[s77rt]

I think this should be set on hold in favour of #12521

[slafortune]

@tgolen @s77rt @Santhosh-Sellavel The other issue is moving along nicely - any reason why this one can't be closed?

[s77rt]

@slafortune Not the same issue.
I though fixing the first issue will fix this as well but does not seem like it

[iwiznia]

AFAIK we said we would not be focusing on supporting firefox, so I think we should close this issue.

[slafortune]

Ah - agreed! https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1668730285445209