Sent by Jon Jensen on 12 December 2003 04:04
>
> > 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.
>
Aside from the IE bug of not selecting text, the reason it "jumps around"
has to do with your source code. In your html, the right column comes first,
so if you are selecting text in the main content area and happen to end your
selection outside of the main content area (i.e. on or below the right
sidebar), it suddenly inverts your selection. But that's what it *should* do
due to the order of your source code. The typical behavior in every browser
that I'm aware of is this: text is selected/highlighted according to the
order it appears in the source, not the order it is positioned on the page.
So if you have positioned (fixed, absolute, even relative) elements on a
page, you might have unusual results when you highlight text.
Jon
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