angular-ui/ui-grid

Text highlighting not longer working, if cellNav is used

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#4,190 opened on Aug 14, 2015

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Description

If you use the cellNav feature you are no longer able to highlight the text within a cell.

I'm talking about "no longer" because text highlighting is default behavior of ui-grid and it was possible to set enableHighlighting: true in ng-grid to allow text highlighting, even with cell selection (navigation) on.

Example:

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Tech stack
javascriptangular
Domain
frontend
Issue type
bug
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3
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half day
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stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
clear
Prerequisites
Angularui grid internalstext selection behavior
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
40
Research direction
Research the interaction between cellNav and text selection in ui grid. Examine the cellNav directive to see how it prevents text highlighting. Compare with the ng grid implementation that allowed enableHighlighting. Propose a solution that re enables text selection while preserving cell navigation, potentially by adding a configuration option.