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VisualEditor: Link inspector does not highlight/remove default linked text sometimes in automated testing in Chrome
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Description

first word in page text is still in link box after clicking and typing

seen in Chrome only as of 30 Apr:

as a logged in user on beta labs, invoke VE on a page containing text

without typing or clicking anything else, click the Link icon

the first word in the page text is in the box to create the link

  • problem: the text in the link box is not automatically highlighted

click in the link box to create the link text

  • problem: default text in the link box that should be highlighted should also be removed when the user clicks in the box to type their own link

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65038

Attached:

link_text_should_be_removed.png (389×441 px, 54 KB)

Details

Reference
bz64655

Event Timeline

I can't reproduce this in Chrome or Firefox on Beta Labs now – possibly a temporary/cached deployment bug?