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can't select text

Sent by Chris Brody on 12 December 2003 03:03


Tim Baxter wrote on 12 December 2003 02:17:

> For some reason text can not be consistently selected for copying
> on my site.

It's an IE bug, for which the fix is not to use absolutely-positioned divs.
Alternatively, put the browser into quirks mode by including the xml prolog
as recommended by W3C. BTW the page works fine in Mozilla, apart from the
long URLs which don't wrap.

More here: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/7313
here: http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/27339
and here: http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/07/23/boie6selecta.php

(Note that many highly-regarded sites including glish.com, csszengarden.com
and diveintomark.org also suffer badly from this bug.)

HTH.

--Chris.

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