Selection vanishes when view is not editable

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Was it an implicit behaviour of prosemirror that it will not show browser selection when view is not editable or could be some bug . I am using czi-prosemirror . I am not sure if a plugin should be written to enable browser selection . Some how the selection just vanishes , i see code in prosemirror-view does flush and from and to points to -1 in that and the selection gets removed. Any pointers ?

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That’s not intended behavior. If you can demonstrate it with a plain ProseMirror instance (no 3rd-party wrapper and libraries), I can try to debug it.

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Thanks Marijn .Before i create a non 3rd party one , i just did a trial and error . The browser selection works till prosemirror-view 1.8.9 , but doesnt after moving to 1.9.0 or latest.

Steps to reproduce …

git clone https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/czi-prosemirror.git
npm install
npm run start

Open http://localhost:3001/?readonly you should be able to double select on any text …

Now to reproduce
npm install prosemirror-view@1.9.0 Open http://localhost:3001/?readonly you should not be able to double click to select on any text…

Let me try to create a plain prosemirror one …

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I think its due to the wrappers , some dispatchtransaction suppressing the event . Let me try to figure out.

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I just encountered this today, maybe. It can be resolved by setting user-select: text, I believe.

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I don’t see the problem in a plain ProseMirror instance set to be uneditable, so it does seem to be related to the context.

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Thanks marijn , its a state persistence issue , the selection state is not given back to the editor in readonly mode in my case . Fixed it.