Was about to post asking if it was a ruleset problem, but a quick check for curiosity (need to do those more...) on my Firefox/Gentoo system shows it's just an IE bug (or non-compliance - same thing). Firefox works like expected, but I'd like to make IE work right.
I made a few example pages, for convenience.
I have a couple pages with absolute floating div tags. My problem is that if you try to highlight any text in either of the two floating divs (all but the very top centered h1 tag in the examples), it'll do only a block of the entire page prior to or after your starting point. This is in IE 6.0 on both WinXP and Win2k, for reference.
While the page technically looks fine, it's rather irritating to me and makes the page less useful due to inability to copy/paste anything easily.
This occurs in all the files linked above except html-trans.html, which begins with:
It also works when no doctype is declared, but I didn't bother making a copy of that page as I'd rather not leave out the DTD.
What's very interesting is that if you add the doctype declaration url to the <!DOCTYPE, as in html-trans_with_url.html:
... or if you change the doctype to strict - leaving out the unruly dtd url - as in html-strict.html:
... it suddenly kills the drag highlighting again. And I couldn't get anything on the XHTML side to work.
I'd far prefer to run all my pages with strict compliance if at all possible - and better yet as XHTML strict. Is there any compliant hack to make IE not get all funky at the drop of a non-Transitional HTML DTD? Or am I just doing something fundamentally wrong?
I made a few example pages, for convenience.
I have a couple pages with absolute floating div tags. My problem is that if you try to highlight any text in either of the two floating divs (all but the very top centered h1 tag in the examples), it'll do only a block of the entire page prior to or after your starting point. This is in IE 6.0 on both WinXP and Win2k, for reference.
While the page technically looks fine, it's rather irritating to me and makes the page less useful due to inability to copy/paste anything easily.
This occurs in all the files linked above except html-trans.html, which begins with:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>It also works when no doctype is declared, but I didn't bother making a copy of that page as I'd rather not leave out the DTD.
What's very interesting is that if you add the doctype declaration url to the <!DOCTYPE, as in html-trans_with_url.html:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">[/URL]
<html>... or if you change the doctype to strict - leaving out the unruly dtd url - as in html-strict.html:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html>... it suddenly kills the drag highlighting again. And I couldn't get anything on the XHTML side to work.
I'd far prefer to run all my pages with strict compliance if at all possible - and better yet as XHTML strict. Is there any compliant hack to make IE not get all funky at the drop of a non-Transitional HTML DTD? Or am I just doing something fundamentally wrong?