Selected text doesn’t always persist when highlighting

[jhdouglas]

Users have the ability to select/deselect portions of the transcript by highlighting text. Currently, however, selecting text and clicking outside of the highlight doesn’t always persist. It appears that users must click completely outside of the transcript for the selection to remain, which isn’t immediately apparent.

1. Open autoEdit 2 app
2. Add file to have access to transcript
3. Open transcript show page
4. In highlight mode, begin selecting text
5. Observe text is highlighted
6. Click to remove highlight
7. Note selection does not persist

[pietrop]

Making a note to look into the selection library rangy as possible solution when refactoring this.

[pietrop]

This only happens if selecting and then click along side the selection.
There is possibly something to do with which element is associated with the user selection listener.