Can't highlight text in IE

[vasah20]

Using IE6/Windows or IE/Mac (forget what version), I can't highlight any of the following text on this page:

http://www.elliottsweb.com/prev/nadler/secondary.html?sec_attorney.html

CSS file at:

http://www.elliottsweb.com/prev/nadler/includes/ie.css

I *know* it's got something to do with the mainContent div, because when I take it out, it works. Is there any way I can work around this?

TIA -
leo

 

[Tarwn]

Try changing that mainContent to a class instead of using the id to reference the style (change the # in CSS to a . as well)

If that doesn't work you'll need to be a little more specific about what your trying to highlight, it wasn't obvious to me (might be to someone else but I can be pretty dense sometimes)

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[vasah20]

Thanks, but changing the # to . didn't work (tested locally).

Sorry I wasn't more clear... what I'm trying to do is highlight the copy in the right frame with my mouse.

On MSIE it highlights the entire paragraph of text, while on a Mac it just refuses to highlight anything.

So trying to highlight a single word, like 'the' leads to me highlighting most of the page.

Any ideas?

 

[Tarwn]

I haven't anything about this before, maybe this is a "feature" in the browser, don't know, sorry I misunderstood before and couldn't help more.

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[BDNFLNC]

Bug.

I have seen this often. I have determined that my opinion is a bug in the MAC version of IE.

I have definitely had the same issue. I needed some text to recreate a page and couldn't grab it! I just grabbed it froim the source after all.