CSS and Absolute Positioning

Selecting text within web pages.

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This is something that has been discussed before and I wanted to see if there have been any solutions to the issue.

When using CSS-P (Absolute Positioning), IE users cannot select text on a web page as they normally could on other websites not using CSS-P. Could I assume that this is a bug with CSS-P and IE? It doesn't happen with Firefox. Any workarounds for this?

I have found that you can select blocks of text by clicking on the block of text you want to copy, Ctrl + Click to select it, and then Ctrl + C to copy.

I don't want to have to put special instructions up for IE users on how to select blocks of text for copying.

[SuzyUK]

Any workarounds for this?

didn't know it was still a problem.. I would need to see a sample case, do you have a link to the previous discussion, was there a code sample in it?

I have a very sneaking suspicion that it can be corrected if you use some sort of Layout fix on the "unselectable" text.

hasLayout (absolute positioning triggers it) can have weird effects on the stack levels...

Suzy