On Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 2:52:23 AM UTC-6, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > I read around the issue and then discovered that there are proposals in > CSS to change the behaviour but they somewhat in conflict with existing DOM > approach ... https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui-4/#content-selection. I > haven't tested if any browsers adopted the proposal--the point is that the > default setting is "uncopyable" but the proposal is to permit copying using > a "user-select" property with several different available settings. > > I'm not sure if I've understood correctly, but, that draft seems to suggest that in Firefox you *may* be able to set user-select, either in the parent element or in the before/after pseudo element itself:
Note: As of the time of writing, experimental implementations do not all behave like this. Firefox does. So, in essence, something like: element::before { user-select: text; ... } You could also try moz-user-select but try the above first. Again, I'm not sure I've read enough of the draft to gain complete understanding. The fact it's a draft is a red flag -- indeed, the entire section is denoted "at risk". Here's the MDN article, for reference (no mention of pseudo elements) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/user-select -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5f035542-6245-45e6-8408-0c921ff81b1c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.