# Links to posts aren't auto-selected reliably

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 9, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308 "2016-02-09T18:25:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308/1 "2016-02-09T18:25:24Z")

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When clicking the share-button on a posts, the links is helpfully selected for easy copying:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/c/4c1a6bba80e84083976783751c365f12963027bf.png)

However, this stops working most of the time as soon as I click on anything on the page, e.g. the white background. Afterwards, the popups still open, but without the text being preselected. Reloading the page temporarily fixes this.

I’m running Chrome `Version 48.0.2564.109 m (64-bit)`

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308/2 "2016-02-09T18:51:10Z")

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I have noticed this as well. I was thinking it was related to having a touch interface attached, but the clicking anything else on the page seems to do it for me as well.

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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308/3 "2016-02-09T19:03:09Z")

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Interesting – I _do_ have a touch interface, too!

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-to-posts-arent-auto-selected-reliably/39308/4 "2016-02-09T19:05:05Z")

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This might then be related to

> [@Attempt to filter category on topic edit results in modifying title](https://meta.discourse.org/t/attempt-to-filter-category-on-topic-edit-results-in-modifying-title/35738/9):
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> Hey again @eviltrout, based on the my usage (and reviewing the changes you made here): [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5a15c4997cf1a0a34089989e7a2376d730f870e0](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5a15c4997cf1a0a34089989e7a2376d730f870e0) I believe that this is fixed… As I am not familiar with the naming scheme used by Discourse, can you confirm if those changes affected the category dropdown?

There were some issues previously with other dialogs that appear differently on touch interfaces versus others, and the fix was to only make changes on iOS, not all touch devices.