How to handler events on Reader Mode page in Edge?

Question

I'm writing an extension for edge, and I need to handle text selection in my typescript application. But the thing is that I can't listen to standard page events like "mouseup", "selectionchange" in reader mode.

That is, this code will write a message to the console on a normal page. But nothing happens on the reader mode page.

document.addEventListener("mouseup", () => {
      console.log("Mouse up event");
    });

What events and how can I use in my code to handle mouse click or selection change in reader mod?

Answer 1

Hi @Paul Tarkhoff

I can reproduce it in Edge. I guess that's because Reader Mode is designed to provide a simplified reading experience, which may restrict certain interactions. But I also test on Chrome and Firefox reader mode and the page events will be fired.

I think it's by design in Edge and there's no way to handle the events on Edge reader mode for now. I suggest that you can request a new feature to Edge team by pressing Alt+Shift+I in Edge.

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