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BRU-#9236

Description

Double-clicking the request URL in the Timeline (both the collapsed row and the expanded detail view) also selected the HTTP method sitting next to it, forcing users to manually delete the method after pasting the copied URL elsewhere. This is especially painful for URLs built from variables — Timeline is often the fastest place to grab the resolved URL mid-debugging, so getting the method tagged along on every double-click is annoying.

solve - #9236

Fix

  • Added an explicit onDoubleClick handler (selectAllTextOnDoubleClick) that selects the full text content of the clicked element via Range/Selection, instead of relying on the browser's native double-click word-boundary detection — which was inconsistent (sometimes grabbing the method too, sometimes only a punctuation-delimited fragment of the URL).
  • Wired this handler onto the URL element in both places it's rendered: the collapsed row (.tl-col-url) and the expanded detail header (.tl-header-url-text). It's attached only to the URL element itself, so it's structurally impossible for it to include the adjacent method text.
  • In the expanded detail view, the method and URL were previously rendered as two adjacent <span>s with no actual space character between them (only a CSS margin-right), so their underlying text ran together (e.g. GEThttps://...). Added a real space between them and set both spans to display: inline-block so each has its own isolated selection boundary.

Double-clicking the URL now always selects exactly the URL, nothing more.
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    • Double-clicking a timeline request URL selects the full URL text for easier copying.
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    • Improved timeline header layout for request methods and URLs.

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Timeline URL elements now use inline-block display. Double-clicking a URL in collapsed or expanded timeline headers selects its full text.

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Timeline URL selection

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URL selection behavior
packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/Timeline/TimelineItem/StyledWrapper.js, packages/bruno-app/src/components/ResponsePane/Timeline/TimelineItem/index.js
URL elements use inline-block display. Double-click handlers select all URL text in collapsed and expanded headers.

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- Line 168: Update the collapsed URL div in TimelineItem so
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168-168: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the separator outside the selectable URL text.

selectAllTextOnDoubleClick selects all contents of event.currentTarget. The collapsed element contains {url} and a trailing space, so copied text includes that space. Wrap {url} in the double-click target and render {' '} as a sibling. The existing white-space: nowrap layout remains unchanged, and both views then select only the URL.

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In
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at line 168, Update the timeline URL markup using selectAllTextOnDoubleClick so
only the url text is inside the double-click target; render the trailing space
as a sibling outside that target, preserving the existing nowrap layout in both
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- Line 168: Update the timeline URL markup using selectAllTextOnDoubleClick so
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Hey @ArpanMondalGITHUB , thanks for putting this together!

Quick thing first though. Generate Code already gives you a fully-resolved URL when "Interpolate Variables" is checked (screenshot attached), so {{baseUrl}} turns into the real URL and it's a one-click copy. The PR says Timeline is "the only place" to see that, which doesn't seem right.

Screenshot 2026-09-15 at 2 08 28 PM

What's your use case for this?

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Hey @ArpanMondalGITHUB , thanks for putting this together!

Quick thing first though. Generate Code already gives you a fully-resolved URL when "Interpolate Variables" is checked (screenshot attached), so {{baseUrl}} turns into the real URL and it's a one-click copy. The PR says Timeline is "the only place" to see that, which doesn't seem right.

Screenshot 2026-09-15 at 2 08 28 PM What's your use case for this?

Good catch, thanks — you're right, I wasn't aware Generate Code already covers that with Interpolate Variables on. I'll fix the PR description,
The underlying bug still stands though — double-clicking the URL in the Timeline to select+copy it also grabbed the HTTP method, which is annoying since Timeline is still the fastest way to grab the URL without opening a separate Generate Code view. i will frame it as "a quicker way to copy what Timeline already shows" rather than "the only way."
is this will be good ?

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