Todd:
below is what I found doing a search on 'cannot select text in IE' on
google.
Could this help in anyway? You mentioned web development, so I thought it
might help.
> > 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.
M. Manasa Reddy
ERP Specialist
Crestview Aerospace Corporation
Email:
mreddy@...
Phone: (850) 682-2746 x 272
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All other programs work OK. Even forms in "preview" mode in Frontpage.
Web site development for several sites is main reason I have to stick with
IE. As long as it is the "gorilla in the room" I must accomodate it and
make sure the sites work with it. Otherwise I'd be using Firefox routinely.
My best guess is still a registry setting in some sort of policy related
only to IE. I'll probably have to start searching around in the registry.
-Todd C.
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I'm going to ask the obvious.....you can do this in any other program,
right?
M. Manasa Reddy
ERP Specialist
Crestview Aerospace Corporation
Email:
mreddy@...
Phone: (850) 682-2746 x 272
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Subject: [Vantage] [OT] Internet Explorer - Can't Select Text or Click
in
Form Fields
Sorry about such a strange OT but I have an odd issue with IE for a
couple
months now that is driving me nuts. Yes, there are alternatives to IE but
for various reasons I need to stick with it. About 90% of the time when I
open the browser I can not select text on the page or click into an entry
field, such as on a form - like username / password fields. There is a
workaround for entry fields by right clicking and "Select All" which will
place the cursor therebut that is getting really tiresome. And not being
able to select text and cut/paste it is a huge problem. Only workaround
seems to be to select all and paste to Word then select text from there.
The problems affect ONLY Internet Explorer. Once in a while I'll open it
and it will work fine but there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. I
tried upgrading to IE 6.1 but it did not help.
If anyone out there has experienced this or heard of a bug in IE
(wouldn't
be the first) or has a solution I would really appreciate any info you
have.
I would suspect registry damge from spyware (key logger maybe?) but have
not
had any on my PC and am protects half a dozen ways including CA eTrust
PestPatrol. I have searched the web for clues but have come up empty.
Thanks,
Todd Caughey
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.
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