diff --git a/ext/js/app/frontend.js b/ext/js/app/frontend.js
index ff6dc5f222..830f50fd14 100644
--- a/ext/js/app/frontend.js
+++ b/ext/js/app/frontend.js
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ export class Frontend {
                 excludeSelectors.push('.source-text', '.source-text *');
             }
             this._textScanner.excludeSelector = excludeSelectors.join(',');
-            this._textScanner.touchEventExcludeSelector = 'gloss-link, gloss-link *, tag, tag *, inflection';
+            this._textScanner.touchEventExcludeSelector = '.gloss-link, .gloss-link *, .tag, .tag *, .inflection';
         }
 
         this._updateContentScale();