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Text on path gets selected when you marquee over empty space

When I need to select something under the arc, like it’s shown in the GIF attached, I can use marquee and the the type object gets selected.
Why?
Did I click the path? No.
Did I click the text? No.
That’s just the 'Illustrator’s way'. Can you make an option to disable this nonsense?

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  • Uwe Laubender commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi Egor,
    in the moment you touch the bounding box of that path the object gets selected.
    ( Different behavior in InDesign. )

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender
    ( Adobe Community Professional )

  • Zac commented  ·   ·  Report

    Whenever I am working on an artboard for brand identity, I have a lot of text paths on objects. Whenever I try to click and drag over an element, it ALSO grabs the path of the text, which I do not want. Is there a way to only click and drag over the elements you want to touch without having to lock the text paths?

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