Sent by Susan Kitchens on 2 January 2003 21:09
Happy New Year! It's my first post after lurking a while.
In the course of learning CSS, I've come up with a theory about something
that I'd previously noticed (and found bothersome): Some web sites won't
let me copy text.
My findings:
--Table-less layouts constructed with DIVs/IDs will allow the contents of
only one div to be copied.
--It's browser-specific: This happens while I browse using IE-Mac (v. 5),
but does not happen in Mozilla.
Would anyone confirm this? In your experience are there other browsers
that mimic IE-Mac's limited copy-ability behavior? Any CSS expert
suggestings for how to setup layout to bestow "copyable" status to the
page's primary DIV? (I'd rather design a site so that it's possible to
copy content than, say, a navigation sidebar.)
Cheers,
Susan
Susan A. Kitchens
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