[HOLD for payment 2023-05-05] [$1000] Long pressing on emoji suggestions highlights the text/attachments behind the emoji list on mweb

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Action Performed:

1. First of all , open android app, go to any chat, type in :per (to get the suggestion list)
2. Now long press any of the emoji from the suggestion list and notice that the emoji gets placed on the chat box
3. Next, repeat the same steps on mweb chrome and notice that in mweb,the emoji doesn’t gets placed on the chat box instead it highlights the text or attachments (anything that is present behind the suggestion list)

Expected Result:

There should be consistency between the mweb and android/web where long pressing the emoji from the suggestion list should place the emoji on the chat box on mweb

Actual Result:

Long pressing the emoji in the emoji suggestion list selects the text/attachment (any text) behind the suggestion list on mweb chrome

Workaround:

unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.2.88-0
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):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos:

emojierror.mp4

az_recorder_20230324_133659.1.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @priya-zha
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1679662560223179

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[MelvinBot]

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

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[MelvinBot]

@garrettmknight Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[garrettmknight]

Confirmed, agree that we should make this consistent and the expected result makes sense.

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