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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.

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

Thankfully awaiting your suggestions and loathing IE,

Frank

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The problem with selecting text in a div is that a browser is not a text editor. It knows how to display the text but how would it know what to highlight when the the text font and size is anyone's guess?

You could 'bluff' the action using javascript and a 'copy text' link or button that prints only the text you want into a new window.]]> 07/21/04, 203 05 2004 2004:%i:1090404324 06:05:24 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/browsers/ie6_wont_selecthighlight_text_correctly/#p1125 http://www.wpdfd.com/forums/wpdfd/browsers/ie6_wont_selecthighlight_text_correctly/#p1126
<script type="text/javascript">

if (window.createPopup && document.compatMode &&
document.compatMode=="CSS1Compat"
{
 document.onreadystatechange = onresize = function fixIE6AbsPos()
 {
   if (!document.body) return;
   if (document.body.style.margin != "0px" document.body.style.margin = 0;
   onresize = null;
   document.body.style.height = 0;
   setTimeout(function(){ document.body.style.height =
document.documentElement.scrollHeight+'px'; }, 1);
   setTimeout(function(){ onresize = fixIE6AbsPos; }, 100);
 }
}

</script>

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