Hallo, If you take a look at the following exemplary page: http://www.zeno.org/Schmidt-1902/A/Petri,+Familie with IE 6 and try to select text in the lower portion of the middle column, you might recognize that it doesn't work properly. I am looking for ways to correct this.
The last not absolutely positioned elememnt in the flow ist the left column. The right column and the middle column are absolutely positioned. If I do a "Select all" on the page, I can see that - all the text is selected, even the text that I couldn't select with regular mouse dragging. - it seems the browsers colors the whole area that he thinks is the "active area" of the page with the same dark blue selection color. But this active area ends below the bottom corner of the left menu column. I guess it is because this is the last element in the box flow. The following elements are positioned absolute and thus fall out of the box flow. The bottom line of this dark blue rectangle can be seen as the end of the "active" content. Text that is above this line can be selected, text below the line not. Does anybody have any idea how to corrct this? You might wonder why I positioned the middle and the right column absolutely. Well, my problem was that - the middle column should have a min-width - we'd like to live without additional css files for older browser versions. But in Internet Explorer, if the three columns are flowed, and if you then narrow the window until the min-width of the middle column is reached, then the flowing divs "break" like words in a sentence and the middle div jumps below the left div. And because the header of the page has the same three column structure, the same happens up there, too. I knew no other way then to position the middle and the right div absolutely. An alternative would be to use a different css for IE. IE interprets min-width different anyway so one could just drop the definition of min-width or IE browsers. But if possible in any way I would like to stick with one single css file. Could anybody give me a hint in the right direction? Best regards, Christian Kirchhoff Directmedia Publishing GmbH · Möckernstraße 68 · 10965 Berlin www.digitale-bibliothek.de AG Berlin-Charlottenburg · HR B 58002 · USt.Id. DE173211737 Geschäftsführer: Ralf Szymanski · Erwin Jurschitza ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
