IE6 won't select/highlight text correctly

Hello, and welcome to my first post!

Please visit my work-in-progress to witness the problem firsthand:
http://www.animalactivists.org/WFAD. Clicking the About WFAD link will
probably give us a better example.

Simply put, IE6 does not allow users to select the text correctly. Try it and
see. Either you select partial text, or you don't get much control over what
you select, or you select the whole damn page!

This does not happen in Mozilla's newest, though I can't say I've tried any
other browsers.

Everything is in div tags and I've made pretty extensive use of my stylesheet,
but I can't seem to find anything wrong with what I've done. I tried giving
the text's div tag the highest z-index on the page, but that didn't solve the
problem, and it messed with my formatting anyway. I'm using Dreamweaver MX
2004.

Is this a browser issue? If so, does anyone know of any workarounds? ... or
perhaps there is something I can do differently.... or maybe it's something
about Dreamweaver?

Thankfully awaiting your suggestions and loathing IE,

Frank

I just did a google and found this:
http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1516

Hope it helps.

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"oedipusrex" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hello, and welcome to my first post!

Please visit my work-in-progress to witness the problem firsthand:
http://www.animalactivists.org/WFAD. Clicking the About WFAD link will
probably give us a better example.

Simply put, IE6 does not allow users to select the text correctly. Try
it and
see. Either you select partial text, or you don't get much control over
what
you select, or you select the whole damn page!

This does not happen in Mozilla's newest, though I can't say I've tried
any
other browsers.

Everything is in div tags and I've made pretty extensive use of my
stylesheet,
but I can't seem to find anything wrong with what I've done. I tried
giving
the text's div tag the highest z-index on the page, but that didn't solve
the
problem, and it messed with my formatting anyway. I'm using Dreamweaver
MX
2004.

Is this a browser issue? If so, does anyone know of any workarounds? ...
or
perhaps there is something I can do differently.... or maybe it's
something
about Dreamweaver?

Thankfully awaiting your suggestions and loathing IE,

Frank

"oedipusrex" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Hello, and welcome to my first post!

Please visit my work-in-progress to witness the problem firsthand:
http://www.animalactivists.org/WFAD. Clicking the About WFAD link will
probably give us a better example.

Simply put, IE6 does not allow users to select the text correctly. Try
it and
see. Either you select partial text, or you don't get much control over
what
you select, or you select the whole damn page!

This does not happen in Mozilla's newest, though I can't say I've tried
any
other browsers.

Everything is in div tags and I've made pretty extensive use of my
stylesheet,
but I can't seem to find anything wrong with what I've done. I tried
giving
the text's div tag the highest z-index on the page, but that didn't solve
the
problem, and it messed with my formatting anyway. I'm using Dreamweaver
MX
2004.

Is this a browser issue? If so, does anyone know of any workarounds? ...
or
perhaps there is something I can do differently.... or maybe it's
something
about Dreamweaver?

Thankfully awaiting your suggestions and loathing IE,

Frank

It's maybe because your class definition is outside an editable area:

<DIV class=body id=body
style="Z-INDEX: 100; LEFT: 0px; OVERFLOW: auto; WIDTH: 535px; POSITION:
absolute; TOP: 250px; HEIGHT: 450px"><SPAN class=content>

<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="body" -->

<P><STRONG>The purpose of World Farm Animals Day </STRONG>is to manifest,
memorialize, mourn, and mitigate the needless suffering and death of 50
billion
<snipped>
</P>

<!-- InstanceEndEditable -->

</SPAN></DIV>

:. Nadia .: wrote:

I just did a google and found this:
http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1516

You might also want to look at
http://blog.tom.me.uk/2003/07/23/boie6selecta.php


Gary

terry wrote:

It's maybe because your class definition is outside an editable area:

That cannot possibly have anything to do with it.


Gary