(Background: my project involves developing an email processor that displays emails on a web page)
To enable click events in a specific area, I leverage Angular's Renderer2. This approach is necessary because the content is dynamically generated with innerHTML, which does not support (click) binding.
While the click events are successfully captured, an issue arises when attempting to select text within this designated area. Upon releasing the mouse button, the selected text gets deselected due to the listener established by the renderer.listen() method.
Why does this behavior occur, and what steps can be taken to address it?
@ViewChild('listener') listener;
...
ngAfterViewInit() {
this.renderer.listen(this.listener.nativeElement, 'click', (evt) => {
if (evt.path[0].id.includes('plus')) {
this.lightboxService.showBox(evt.path[0].src);
}
});
}
Edit: The issue is not related to the showBox() method but rather stems from the renderer itself. Even without invoking any methods, the problem persists. The listener triggers on clicks, including those on text.
Restricting the listening area solely to images is not a viable solution as the placement of images is unpredictable.