Selection Problems With Cursor

cursor selection layers select

[dancin_paul]

Hi,

I'm working on a website and I'm using CSS layers. When the visitor clicks and drags their mouse over text, all of a sudden the whole page is selected! I don't know why this is happening, but I'm thinking maybe that I'm not using layers correctly? I'm sure there is a simple explanation for this, so if you have it, I'd really appreciate it!

I haven't been working with CSS for very long, so apologies for my ignorance!

Thanks for any help!

Paul

[edited by: SuzyUK at 10:43 am (utc) on Mar. 6, 2006]
[edit reason] ooops sorry no URLs : see TOS #13 [WebmasterWorld.com] [/edit]

[Elliott Hird]

I'm fairly sure you can't post links [webmasterworld.com]. Post code.

[dancin_paul]

I still think if you go to the site and try and select some text you'll have a better idea of what the problem is and how to fix it. Here is a slice from my style sheet:

#page { width: 780px; margin: 0 auto; z-index: 0; }

#background { z-index: 0; position:absolute; }

#site_description { z-index: 0; position:absolute; margin-left:340px; margin-top:45px; background-color:#FFFFFF; width:240px; height:30px; }

#menu_panel { position: absolute; margin-left:40px; margin-top:77px; z-index: 1; }

#left_panel { position: absolute; margin-left:27px; margin-top:140px; width:310px; z-index: 0; }

#right_panel { position: absolute; margin-left:369px; margin-top:140px; width:378px; z-index: 0; }

[edited by: SuzyUK at 10:47 am (utc) on Mar. 6, 2006]

[Robin_reala]

As far as I know, selection order runs with the source order, not the display order. If your boxes are in a completely different order to your code then I think selection is going to work in an odd way.

[dancin_paul]

I figured out what it was. Its a bug in IE that when you place text within divs positioned with absolute positioning. IE doesn't like it and tends to highlight the entire content of the div.

Thanks for all your help.