Can not edit label in Firefox browser
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853519 Probably the easiest solution would be to force the View to use span tag instead of label
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Hi, I can not edit label in Firefox browser (v. 69.0.3). The issue occurs when I double click the component to edit it. RTE shows toolbar but changing text or attributes is unable. The web console does not show any errors. When the text is selected and I am trying to for example bold the text then in web console there is an error: After triple click text can be edited but only whole text. Can not select only part of the text or move cursor left or right to change only part of the text. Double click issue Steps to reproduce (actual behavior):Put label block to the canvas,Double click the label...
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=853519
Probably the easiest solution would be to force the View to use span tag instead of label
This was an interesting fix but it comes with issues...
spans != labels
when applying padding to the labels such as bootstrap labels the padding will not be applied to a span
not unless display: inline-block; is also applied to the span
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