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Selecting text in IE selects all text

         

jozomannen

2:18 pm on Jan 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I'm currently working with a site where I guess people would like to copy some parts of the text from. This works perfectly in FF, but when you should select a part of the text in IE, it selects the text of the whole page.

What is the most common reasons that causes this problem?

encyclo

6:31 pm on Jan 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

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The most common reason is when you are using CSS positioning - there is a known bug in IE6 which makes text selection difficult or impossible in certain circumstances. Are you positioning the element with CSS?

jozomannen

6:56 pm on Jan 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

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This site is using position: absolute

Are there any way of solving it and keeping a positioned design? (This site can not be floated like all my other sites)