Hi guys,

I know this is a browser problem, but, when using the friends electric theme with Internet explorer, users are unable to select any node or comment text using their mouse...

while googling I found the folowing hack, which works..i.e. people are able to select text, but it breaks other things in the theme/style.

<?php print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"iso-8859-1\"?>"; ?>

I have marked this as a browser bug..and googled myself to delerium over this...just wondering if anyone else has come up with a workaround/style sheet edit or other?

thanks in advance...great theme..great style...and just to reiterate..this is not really a problem with the theme...it's a problem with Internet Effing Explorer.

Cheers

Dub

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mikhailian’s picture

mikhailian commented
Version: » 4.6.x-1.x-dev

The same with FriendsElectric 4.6.0, IE 6.02 and Windows XP. Lots of users report this.

nurungji’s picture

nurungji commented
Title: selecting text in IE problems » I think I found the solution!

I have tried that XML tag , and I was able to select text. However the layout design came out incorrectly.

So I spent some more time with the themes/friendselectric/style.css

And Luckily, I think I finally have found the solution!!!!

My solution is commenting below "position:relative" line

#content-wrap {
  float: left;
  /* position: relative; */
}

For more information , visit my page.

Bye!

Annika’s picture

Annika commented

For some reason only Microsoft knows, the XML tag throws IE 6 into "quirks" mode. That means it renders the CSS box model in the same way as IE 5, i.e. catastrophically wrong. The XML tag might also cause other little IE quirks, so I would use it with caution.

Steven’s picture

Steven commented
Title: I think I found the solution! » Selecting text in IE

Restoring title