# Double-clicking browser search term only partially selects

**URL:** <https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/double-clicking-browser-search-term-only-partially-selects/9668>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 30, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/double-clicking-browser-search-term-only-partially-selects/9668 "2021-04-30T19:29:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![brec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@brec](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/brec)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/double-clicking-browser-search-term-only-partially-selects/9668/1 "2021-04-30T19:29:12Z")

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A weird little glitch that annoys me a little:  
Type a search term in browser search bar, typically after selecting a deck in the side bar. So the search bar looks schematically like this:  
`"deck:name of deck" AND "foobar"`

Now I see the search results. Hmm, I’d like to change `foobar` to something else. So I double click on it. Quite often, it highlights fully but less than a second later the highlight contracts to only some initial portion of the word. I suspect the degree of contraction is not random, but I haven’t got predictive rules as yet.

MacOS 11.3, Anki 2.1.43

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**Author:** ![Rumo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/rumo/32/1505_2.png) [@Rumo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Rumo)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 6:34am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/double-clicking-browser-search-term-only-partially-selects/9668/2 "2021-05-01T06:34:09Z")

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There were some reports of this, e.g. here: [Text select problem with Big Sur](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/text-select-problem-with-big-sur/5878)  
Probably a bug in the toolkit Anki uses.

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**Author:** ![brec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@brec](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/brec)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/double-clicking-browser-search-term-only-partially-selects/9668/3 "2021-05-01T11:50:10Z")

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Thanks! I did some more experimenting and replied in more detail in that other thread.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 5:05am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/double-clicking-browser-search-term-only-partially-selects/9668/4 "2023-05-01T05:05:50Z")

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