Cannot select partial text within a chat message — click-and-drag always selects the entire message
Bug report: Cannot select partial text within a chat message — click-and-drag always selects the entire message
Description
When trying to select a specific portion of an assistant message (e.g. a sentence, paragraph, or
code block) by clicking and dragging over just that text, the selection instead expands to the
entire message, rather than just the highlighted range. This makes it impossible to copy a
specific excerpt without also grabbing the whole response and manually trimming it elsewhere.
Steps to reproduce
- Have a multi-paragraph assistant response in the chat.
- Click at the start of a specific sentence/paragraph within that response.
- Drag to the end of that same sentence/paragraph.
- Observe: the entire message gets selected/highlighted instead of just the dragged range.
Expected behavior
Click-and-drag should select only the text between the start and end points, same as normal
text selection on any webpage or document, so a specific excerpt can be copied without also
copying the whole message.
Additional context
Confirmed by two separate users on the same team hitting the identical behavior, so this doesn't
appear to be an isolated environment/browser issue.