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Edouard_H - 3:38 pm on Aug 6, 2007 (gmt 0)


However, only 1 project exhibits the problem of being unable to (easily) select text in IE6 (it's either all or nothing!). The page structure does vary slightly between the projects. However, removing the BASE element in the problematic project does resolve this issue.

Apparently the IE 'select text' bug is triggered in XHTML because it incorrectly expects a closing tag for the base element. A conditional comment corrects this and still leaves you with a valid document.

<base href="http://www.domain.com" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->

[edited by: Edouard_H at 3:40 pm (utc) on Aug. 6, 2007]


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