[HOLD 33725][$500] Web - Chat - Two Messages can not be selected when they are divided by reply

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.37-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): gocemate@gmail.com
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to any chat
3. Send a message
4. Add a reply to the message
5. Send another message
6. With mouse select last message and continue to select first message with reply

Expected Result:

Messages should be selected in a consistent manner where there is no 'jumping' or 'flashing' of the highlighted area. The highlighted area shouldn't be disrupted by 'reply to threads' in the chat.

Actual Result:

The highlighted area is no consistently selected when you drag the curser over it.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6369709_1707245548612.Recording__2115.mp4

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Triggered auto assignment to @Christinadobrzyn (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsp
CC @quinthar

[Christinadobrzyn]

testing this, sometimes you can highlight the chat. So I don't know if we want to fix this now - asking https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C066HJM2CAZ/p1707253470143849

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[Christinadobrzyn]

I think we can broaden the scope of this OP to allow for users to highlight an entire chat thread regardless of breaks in the chat - asking the team for a review - https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C066HJM2CAZ/p1707429247200849