In IE 6.0 / Windows, it is impossible to select small pieces of text to cut / paste into other applications. For example, select someone's name and paste into Google to search for more info.

You can click/drag/select LARGER chunks of text, like a whole bullet item or an entire paragraph. But you cannot select just one or two words.

To be sure it was a CS theme issue, I tried other themes and there was no problem.

Selecting text for copying is a functionality that should ALWAYS work....

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traemccombs’s picture

traemccombs commented
Assigned: Unassigned » traemccombs

This seems like an interesting bug. I'm no expert when it comes to IE bugs, but, I suspect you simply aren't selecting the text properly. I was playing with it just a bit ago, and think I ran into some similar problems when trying to select "Username:" and "Password:" from the login block. I was able to successfully copy and paste the Submitted by text, which is the smallest text I know of. I also got the read more text to copy/paste.

Can you please tell me exactly where you were trying to copy from?

Thanks,
Trae

PS. There should never really be any CSS that _I_ know of that can cause you not to copy text that exists no matter how small it is. Also, again, feel free to join us on irc.freenode.net #cstheme !

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traemccombs commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Did more testing and can confirm that, indeed, you can select very small text. It isn't easy to do, and takes a certain level of manual dexterity (and control of your input device[mouse]), but it can be done.

Trae

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heine commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

FYI: This is probably an IE6 bug. IE 6 has some problems with text selection & position: absolute; divs. I don't know of a solution without resorting to Javascript (or omitting Doctype). Since I don't know how to post Javascript here; just contact me if you want it.

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traemccombs commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Thanks, I think there is probably enough JS in the theme as it is. :)

As always, feel free to hop on #cstheme ( irc.freenode.net ) and join us in bug squashing!

Trae

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Hax-1 commented

Hello,
I just registered and logged only to say that I probably have got cure for this bug.

I also runed into some strange problems with divs positioned absolute n IE6. But some CSS might help with this situation:

HTML, BODY { width:100%; height:100%; }

This works for me!