Text entered in Admin Bar Search cannot be selected

[SergeyBiryukov]

Once some text is typed into Admin Bar Search, it cannot be selected with a mouse (to copy, etc.), only from keyboard.

Tested in Firefox 7.01, Chrome 15, IE 8.

In Opera 11.52, the text can't even be entered there.

For me it works in Chrome 16 and Opera 11.52. Can only reproduce it in Firefox.

If I remove href="#" from the link around the form it works.

To test: ​http://jsfiddle.net/5LeGL/

Replying to ocean90:

For me it works in Chrome 16 and Opera 11.52.

Yeah, selection in Opera is possible since [19157]. But an attempt to copy the selected text would only provide an option to copy the underlying link instead.

Why is the dead link around the form there? I don’t see the benefit for the user anyway.

toscho, because of the API.

Related: #15519

Hm, too bad. The first time I clicked on this link I wondered if something was broken. Now I know it. :)
Those links are confusing, take more time to tab through, and they have strange side effect, as we can see here.

One more thing: Browsers offer different context menus depending on the focus. In Opera one cannot insert predefined information (name, phone number, notices) in a linked form element now. So this issue is not just about selecting text.

See also #19151

In [19328]:

Allow linkless items in the admin bar. Improve non-jQuery admin bar tabbing. fixes #19277, #19149, #19164, #15519. see #18197, #19088.