I am no longer able to triple-click to select a line separated by dash or spaces. Not all situations, but some. This is a new behavior.
At some point in the last few months, some update has changed the behavior of triple-clicking in web forms. I have been using this method to copy data from one screen to another for years. It doesn't happen in every field, but it consistently fails in many different scenarios.
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I think that by default triple-clicking should select:
- the entire contents of a single-line control
- the current paragraph in a multi-line control
If you discover a pattern, could you post a sample text that causes the problem? We then can paste it into this compose box for testing. Or if this occurs in particular forms, you could post directions to that problem field on the form so we could investigate it (assuming no login is required).
Also, if you want everything in a one-line or multi-line form control, you can use Select All. Either:
- left-click in the text, then Ctrl+a
- right-click in the text > Select All
There was another thread where a user indicated that the auto-suggest drop-down (the list of previous entries that drops down from the field) might be a factor in triple-click not working as expected. Do you notice anything along those lines?
The auto-suggest drop-down does appear to be a factor. After removing the suggested text, triple clicking works. I consider that a workaround though, since I use that suggested text when not triple clicking, but filling in a form. Hopefully the triple-click can be fixed to ignore auto-suggest.
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