The Apache Isis project [1] uses Wicket for its main viewer, and we recently had this question [2] on our mailing list is:
I believe it was mentioned once in another thread that selecting text (and so copying) from a disabled field doesn't work in Firefox on Windows. Since a week or two it's not possible on a lot of Chrome installations of our users either, probably due to a Chrome update. This really is a big problem for our users because we share a lot of configuration data for internet access and telephony services and copying data makes sure they don't make mistakes while configuring their systems. Would it be a problem to use the read only attribute instead of the disabled attribute? That would be an easy fix. Martin G suggested a possible fix using CSS, but unfortunately to no avail. Since this presumably could impact all Wicket users, the suggestion [3] was to re-raise the question here. So, are there any thoughts on this? Is there any way to enable select text for a disabled input field for both latest Chrome and Firefox? Thx Dan [1] http://isis.apache.org/ [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/354ff5bb35c3dd60fbe643f824951c9665aa7546d79562cf15e014f7@%3Cusers.isis.apache.org%3E [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/566709f02cc6a4607d1f86d98e19ec1e7d39a2a255dc9895d5800635@%3Cusers.isis.apache.org%3E
