Selectmenu: Losing selection when accesing menu

[spjonez]

Fiddle: ​http://jsfiddle.net/TdLvC/

In the original plugin clicking the menu did not clear any text selection in the browser. Maintaining the selection is necessary if you want to use the dropdown to apply actions to a selection in a contenteditable div.

[tj.vantoll]

This seems like a reasonable use case to me, as native controls don't do this. fnagel, any idea what's causing this?

[Felix Nagel]

I've played around with this and was not able to identify why the selection is lost. It's working in my old fork version but I have no clue why as this was never tested or intended.

Here's a (working) demo of this using my old fork: ​http://jsfiddle.net/GXtpC/1218/

Any experience with this for button widget?

[spjonez]

Replying to fnagel:

I've played around with this and was not able to identify why the selection is lost. It's working in my old fork version but I have no clue why as this was never tested or intended.

Here's a (working) demo of this using my old fork: ​http://jsfiddle.net/GXtpC/1218/

Any experience with this for button widget?

I haven't been able to find it either. Commented almost the entire selectmenu code out, added preventDefault and stopPropagation everywhere I could, seems like the base click is coming from menu/widget? Whatever binding applies ui-state-focus on the button itself is allowing the click to go through.

[Scott González]

PR: ​https://github.com/jquery/jquery-ui/pull/1295

[Scott González]

Selectmenu: Preserve text selection when interacting with the widget

Fixes #10144 Closes gh-1295

Changeset: 749a6a56677fe29d2bf777d79811ce8bdd1b5fad