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Cannot select portion text on page with click-drag in IE:Why?

Sent by Chris Heilmann on 30 November 2004 16:04


> On http://www.stone-env.com/ we've just discovered that using IE 6/WinXP
> we cannot select a portion of the text using the usual click-drag method.
> We can do this in [at least some versions of] Firefox and Opera.
>
> Does anyone know why? Does anyone have a solution? Does it have anything
> to do with the absolutely positioned DIVs? Or with the javascript that
> makes it more annoying for people to copy images with a right-click (and
> might even stop some)?

My guess is that the right-click script is the culprit, or that your
navigation elements are not confined to a space but are covering the whole
area.
Right click scripts are useless and only harm users with good intentions.
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/dont-disable-right-click



-- 
Chris Heilmann
http://icant.co.uk/ | http://www.onlinetools.org/

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