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    #1

    Unable to highlight text on a page with a grid, even in sample project

    Has anyone else notices this, I want to make sure it is just not me? Something has changed in the latest official build of A5 that you can not longer highlight text on pages with a grid, it is really annoying to me and my users. I tried the web contacts manager that ships with A5 to make sure it was not my project.
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    #2
    Re: Unable to highlight text on a page with a grid, even in sample project

    Luke,

    do you mean the A5W page which contained the grid? or just a grid component. I tested mine that have only grid component is different with your case.

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      #3
      Re: Unable to highlight text on a page with a grid, even in sample project

      It was stated in one of the pre-releases that it was in fact a change in Alpha to have more native behavior in the mobile devices. They also gave the code in case you want to revert that change.

      Chrome Browsers - Selecting Static Text - Global Setting in Web Project Properties - In Build 3341 we started automatically adding CSS to the generated CSS for all Grids and Dialogs to prevent static text from being selectable. This was done because it is desirable for mobile applications.

      As a result of this change, static text, on a web page, when running in Chrome is not selectable. We described how you could add the following CSS to the local CSS definition for each component.

      html { -webkit-user-select: auto; }



      Some developers have a large number of components, and editing each component individually to add in the CSS override is tedious. Therefore, a new property is available in Project Properties (accessible from the 'Project Properties' button on the Web Control Panel), that allows you to globally set a property. See the 'Webkit (Chrome/Safari) Specific' property.

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        #4
        Re: Unable to highlight text on a page with a grid, even in sample project

        Elliot beat me to it

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          #5
          Re: Unable to highlight text on a page with a grid, even in sample project

          Awesome, thanks guys.

          I wrote some code to only apply this property to mobile devices. I am already doing a browser check when users log in so this was easy to add. I have a header for the navigation component that is already included in every page to which I am adding the CSS to.

          First page after login
          Code:
          <%a5 Response.NoCache() %>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

<title>Browser Check</title>
</head>
<body>

<!-- Browser Check -->
<script>
var sMobileDevice;
var sLocation;

/* Figure out is device is a mobile device */
if (navigator.platform.search(/arm|iPhone|iPad/gi) === -1) {
	sMobileDevice = "false";
} else {
	sMobileDevice = "true";
}

sLocation = "home_1b_login_processing.a5w?sMobileDevice=" + sMobileDevice;
window.location.href = sLocation;
</script>


</body>
</html>
          Second Page, set session variables
          Code:
          <%a5
	Response.NoCache()

	'=== Set device and browser type session variables ===
	DIM session.sv_cDeivceType AS C
	if variable_exists("request.variables.sMobileDevice") then
		if (request.variables.sMobileDevice == "true") then
			session.sv_cDeivceType = "mobile"
		else
			session.sv_cDeivceType = "desktop"
		end if
	else
		session.sv_cDeivceType = "unknown"
	end if

	a5w_include("home_2_redirect.a5w")
%>
          Header that contains navigation component that is included in every page. Code relevent to adding CSS in head part of HTML
          Code:
          IF variable_exists("session.sv_cDeivceType") THEN
	IF (session.sv_cDeivceType == "mobile") THEN
		?"<style type=\"text/css\">"
		?"html { -webkit-user-select: none; }"
		?"</style>"
	END IF
END IF
          Last edited by LukeS; April 03, 2013, 01:52 PM.

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            #6
            Re: Unable to highlight text on a page with a grid, even in sample project

            Yay! The solution to my problem!
            Alpha Anywhere latest pre-release

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