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.

[ocean90]

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/

[SergeyBiryukov]

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 (with a mouse) would only provide an option to copy the underlying link instead.

[toscho]

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

[ocean90]

toscho, because of the API.

Related: #15519

[toscho]

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.

[ryan]

See also #19151

[koopersmith]

In [19328]:

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