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Quote:I've never seen this problem before. Do you think it could be because I use layers?
There's nothing wrong with using divs in absolutes in your web design. In fact it is better to use divs in your web design rather than tables. The problem is exclusively in IE 6. I suggest you don't worry about compatibility with it as MS is phasing it out, and other users who haven't upgraded have most likely moved on to other browsers that won't do this.
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Looks like you're right. There are alot of problems with IE 7.0, and I'm sure there are plenty of people like me who don't want to change from IE to firefox or opera. If anything else comes to mind please let me know.
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Quote:Looks like you're right. There are alot of problems with IE 7.0, and I'm sure there are plenty of people like me who don't want to change from IE to firefox or opera. If anything else comes to mind please let me know.
Your only other option to make a site with a structured layout would be to use a table based design, which will allow text selection in IE 6. The problem with the table based design, however is tables were never meant to be for laying out a web design - they will misrender on text based browsers(use not only by people who like text based browser but also those forced to use them such as the blind). They also aren't as flexible as a div based design.
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Alright thanks
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1 more question about this though, how come no other site seems to have this problem? I doubt everyone is using tables.
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Wow! You're the first person I've met who has been to every site on the Web!
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I haven't been to every site, but if you look at the source on some of them you can tell whether or not they are using layers.
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If you haven't been to every site, then how can you say that no other site has that problem?
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Look, I'm not trying to be technical about which sites I've been too, but for the ones that I have seen use div tags in their source code, I don't see the same problem happening with their text.
All I was trying to say is that I have not seen this problem on any site I've seen. Implyng that it isn't a common problem.
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I got it! Without converting to tables. Just use this instead of the first line normally given in Dreamweaver pages:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">
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