Comment 5 for bug 1324292

> 2) times I do get the selection rectangle to show up, I can't resize
> it to anything smaller than the paragraph which it seems to select by
> default. I can't get it to select just a single line or multiple words
> within the lines.

The selection mechanism has never had the ability to select a single line or multiple words. It works by selecting HTML elements, so if a paragraph of text is within a <p> or <div> block, the smallest selection possible is that block.

Until we get proper text selection in oxide, I’m afraid we can’t do better than that.