[Findings](/findings/index.md) / UX-052

# A highlight across paragraphs is cut at the first paragraph

Open · low severity · failure · Newsroom Design Lab

## What we saw

Selecting text that spans two paragraphs and tapping Highlight keeps only the part in the first.

## Why it matters

The reader loses part of what they chose to keep, without being told.

## The fix

Store highlights as ranges across blocks, or refuse the selection with a message.

## The record

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| --- | --- |
| **Status** | Open |
| **Severity** | Low |
| **Kind** | Failure: works against the reader |
| **Product** | [Newsroom Design Lab](/findings/?product=newsroom-design-lab), prototype |
| **Where** | newsroom-proto-article |
| **Problems** | [Data loss](/findings/?problem=data-loss) |
| **Visibility** | [Subtle](/findings/?visibility=subtle): felt more than seen: it costs attention or trust, but is not noticed as a bug |
| **Recommendation** | [Say what it is](/findings/?recommendation=say-what-it-is): label it, in the reader's terms, at the moment it matters |
| **Area** | [Article page](/findings/?area=article) |
| **Breaks** | [A default is not an answer](/principles/index.md#defaults-are-not-answers) |
| **Observed** | 2026-10-11, v0.1.1 |
| **Last checked** | 2026-10-11, v0.1.1 |
| **Source** | [Design lab: what building it measured](/lab/index.md#what-building-the-lab-measured) |
| **Prototype** | [Article & reader primitives](/lab/index.md#newsroom-proto-article), route `article/hope-or-enforcement`, in three directions |

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