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1 Feb 02, 2006 08:47    

I've been struggling over this for hours, and I can't figure out a thing.
On my blog template
http://nathancolquhoun.com/blog/index.php?blog=3

I can't copy the text (highlight it) within the posts.
If i expand the width of the area of the posts eventually it will all of sudden start allowing my to copy (not without pushing my sidebar to the bottom, underneath the posts) and as soon as the width is small enough so the sidebar fits back on, the text is unable to be copied again.

Can anyone help me with this?

2 Feb 02, 2006 17:30

First thing to do is fix the validation problems on your page. The page has 4 validation errors, as you can see here:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//nathancolquhoun.com/blog/index.php%3Fblog%3D3

Then, if that doesn't fix the problem, I'd say it's a problem somewhere in your CSS and/or DIV structure that is causing a bug in IE to prevent text-selection. It doesn't happen in Firefox. It's most often caused by DIV's that are positioned absolutely. I've had it happen in pages in the past, but I don't have any pages or sites with this problem right now, so I don't have the benefit of going through a stylesheet which I'm very familiar with to hunt down the cause. It's a general web design issue, and not related to b2evo in any way.

Try throwing your browser into quirks mode (instead of standards mode) and see if the problem goes away. It usually does.

[edit: another thing to try, for testing purposes even though it may screw up the display of the page, is to adjust any negative margins you have where margin: -#px; change to margin: 0; and see if that clears the problem.]

jj.


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