# Cannot quote spoiler text

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-quote-spoiler-text/92864>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 22, 2018, 1:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-quote-spoiler-text/92864 "2018-07-22T01:20:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-quote-spoiler-text/92864/9 "2018-07-23T00:17:04Z")

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I just checked the styles being used for the spoiler text and it includes the style `user-select: none`. I imagine simply removing the code that added that style would work, though obviously I don’t know the details of how the site works or if that would cause any side effects.

EDIT: That change would just be to get the text to highlight of course. If this feature was implemented, there’d obviously be more work to make sure the quoted text was properly wrapped in spoiler tags.

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