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I can select the word reply, like sibling poster said, but also the glyphs.

Yeah, I removed the "glyphs" thing from my comment, because I realized they were SVG backgrounds, not actually text, but that is a common place to use user-select: none, on elements with font faces that are symbols.

I am curious what operating system you can select text from the buttons on though. I might spin up browserstack to experiment.

Works on chrome/linux as well, but you do have to know how to drag from outside the link, or switch to caret browsing (f7)

macOS Safari

Yeah, I just tried to select text in the button element and translate it specifically or copy it, and it doesn't work. You can highlight it, but you aren't selecting the text.

This is what is copied from the login page, you can see that the button text is missing:

Login

username: password:

Forgot your password?

Create Account

username: password:

My fault, I didn't try to copy! I can still select, but sorry for not checking if copy is possible! From your other reply I noticed this!

But yeah, HN isn't the best in this regard :)

Maybe dang will one day consider changing to <button>reply</button>!

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