Selecting text in Internet Explorer (bug)
Rory Parle
Windows XP; I haven't verified the problem on any other platform). If
you go to <http://www.soylentred.net/> and try to select some text, IE
highlights the whole page from the beginning to the point where you
started to select. Can anyone tell me what might be causing this? I'd
like to fix it but I don't want any noticeable changes (except the fix
of course!)
I've narrowed it down to the stylesheet
<http://www.soylentred.net/kk.css>, but I don't want to spend ages
searching for the direct cause if someone has already seen this bug
and knows how to fix it. Can you help?
Incidentally, all comments about the site are welcome (both here and
there).
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Rory Parle
Philipp Lenssen
says...
> My problem stems from a bug in Internet Explorer (I have version 6 on
> Windows XP; I haven't verified the problem on any other platform). If
> you go to <http://www.soylentred.net/> and try to select some text, IE
> highlights the whole page from the beginning to the point where you
> started to select. Can anyone tell me what might be causing this? I'd
> like to fix it but I don't want any noticeable changes (except the fix
> of course!)
>
> I've narrowed it down to the stylesheet
> <http://www.soylentred.net/kk.css>, but I don't want to spend ages
> searching for the direct cause if someone has already seen this bug
> and knows how to fix it. Can you help?
>
Yes. This one is causing the IExplorer bug:
div.pagecontent {
position: absolute; <---
I've seen it many times before and it's really bad, since I didn't find
any other workaround but to not use absolute positioning for the content
div. (You can still use it for other elements though and so create a
relative positioning for the content, which has the same results.)
Rory Parle
Thanks Philipp, that's fixed it. It's safe enough to position the main
content by manipulating its margins, and to use absolute positioning
to place everything else inside these margins. That's actually what I
did with the previous style (and what I've made the current one do
now). I guess when I test new styles now I'll have to make sure they
*behave* right aswell as looking right. It just keeps getting harder...
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Rory Parle
Philipp Lenssen
says...
> (...)
> Thanks Philipp, that's fixed it. It's safe enough to position the main
> content by manipulating its margins, and to use absolute positioning
> to place everything else inside these margins. That's actually what I
> did with the previous style (and what I've made the current one do
> now). I guess when I test new styles now I'll have to make sure they
> *behave* right aswell as looking right. It just keeps getting harder...
>
Yes. Internet Explorer introduced this nice feature in version 6 I
believe, and I had to redo a whole of stylesheets.