{"id":221,"date":"2004-11-02T16:30:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/help_please.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:40","slug":"help_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/11\/help_please.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Help please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some annoying problems with my site for a while and don&#8217;t know how to fix them.  I thought perhaps someone reading this might know what to do or look for.  They happen for me on several computers with several versions of Windows (98SE, 2000 and XP).  I&#8217;ve only noticed in IE since I don&#8217;t really use anything else.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes the text for the site will be invisible.  Scrolling down and then back up makes it appear.  I&#8217;ve seen this one on other sites as well.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t highlight a single word or phrase from my site for copy and paste.  Clicking and dragging selects everyting from the click point on up the page.  It doesn&#8217;t seem to matter which way I drag, I only get the text above.  This one is really annoying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any ideas?<br \/>\n<b>Correction:<\/b>The highlighting problem seems to be isolated to the comments section of individual archive pages.  The pop up comment window is fine and the main body on the main page and the individual archive page is fine too.  Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had some annoying problems with my site for a while and don&#8217;t know how to fix them. 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