{"id":252,"date":"2005-01-16T23:14:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T23:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/text_selection.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:52","slug":"text_selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/01\/text_selection.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Text Selection Fixed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And there was much rejoicing.  OK, <i>I<\/i> did much rejoicing.  This was a particularly annoying bug with IE 6 where you wouldn&#8217;t be able to select text on my site for using cut and paste.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boyink.com\">Mike Boyink<\/a> who I ran into at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healyourchurchwebsite.com\/\">HYCW <\/a>(Mean Dean helps me <i>again<\/i>, though indirectly.)  He lead me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddconsult.com\/blogs\/illuminati\/archives\/000051.html\">this site<\/a> (through a Google search) with a little bit of java script to add to the end of my templates which fixed the bug.<br \/>\nIt has to do with using absolute positioning in my CSS.  One of the sites I found tried to explain it, but it mostly went over my head.  All I care is it&#8217;s fixed with a simple cut and paste.  Let me know if you&#8217;re still having troubles or if you find something else that I broke in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And there was much rejoicing. OK, I did much rejoicing. 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