Title: Visual editor automatic text selection
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Visual editor automatic text selection

 *  [salescart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeaholic/)
 * (@codeaholic)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-automatic-text-selection/)
 * Is there a way to get the WordPress visual text picker to stop picking the text
   that it wants.
 * For example, if I try to just highlight with my mouse
    `<!-- Feature-box -->``
   <div id="FeatureBox" class="feature-box "><!-- Feature-box -->`
 * It always forces the selection as:
    `"><!-- Feature-box -->`
 * It just won’t let me select only what I want. In fact, this html editor does 
   the same thing. I must be missing something obvious??

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 * Last reply from: [salescart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeaholic/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/visual-editor-automatic-text-selection/)
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