IE11 - mouse slection not working

[ionaru]

IE11 - mouse slection not working

[Ionaru]

Thank you for the report.

I suspect this has something to do with the newer version of CodeMirror that is used with EasyMDE.
If at all possible, switch to a more modern browser.

I'll investigate and see if I can get this working again, but to be honest with you it won't be a real priority.

[working-name]

I know, IE11... who uses that OtherBrowser Downloader™ as an actual browser? Apparently corporate sys admins think IE is the only browser invented since the 80s. Yay 😐

It's not CodeMirror, I checked. My uneducated/non-developer guess is that there's some weird listener on mouse drags or on selections that trigger and IE11 halts the selection at that point.

mp:vanilla-simplemde macpro$ npm list | grep codemirror
+-- codemirror@5.42.0

mp:vanilla-easymarkdown macpro$ npm list | grep codemirror
+-- codemirror@5.41.0
+-- codemirror-spell-checker@1.1.2

[working-name]

Uh... I take that back, it is CM, specifically styleSelectedText. Setting that to false will let IE do its thing.

[Ionaru]

Since that is an option provided by EasyMDE, can I consider this issue solved?

new EasyMDE({
    styleSelectedText: false
});

[working-name]

Absolutely. If at some point in the future you have the time to look into what that function does, it would be awesome if you shared that with me. I can’t figure out what exactly it does.

Thanks!

[Ionaru]

It instructs CodeMirror to give selected text the CodeMirror-selectedtext class, allowing for easy styling of the selected text.
EasyMDE currently does not use this in its default style.