text blocking problem

**meantime** · Dec 27, 2005 06:38

New to CSS but came across a problem + solution that might be of use.

I used Adobe Indesign v2 to make a rough page then hand coded the CSS and HTML to custom design in HotDog. When the page was displayed it proved impossible to block text with the text cursor (everything 'upstream' of the cursor became blocked with a single mouse click). I wanted the facility for visitors to cut and paste text so it was a nuisance. All other aspects of the page were OK.

On investigation Indesign had added the following at the top of the page :

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">

Modifying this to :



solved the problem - so far I think (!?). Perhaps other convertion software does this?

**Corey Bryant** · Dec 27, 2005 07:12

Using the proper DOCTYPE can help you layout the website as desired. For proper use: Recommended DTDs to use in your Web document and a great article here: Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE!

**meantime** · Dec 27, 2005 09:10

Thanks Corey,

I followed the links you gave. I can see the need for the Doctypes and am willing to go with the conventions but I am used to the tags for notation being  . All the examples on your links are <! and >. Just as an empirical point... my pages with the dashes around the Doctypes work but the ones without the dashes do not (?)

**Corey Bryant** · Dec 27, 2005 09:14

Usually the use of  is to comment out lines of text.

**Buddy Bradley** · Dec 27, 2005 09:39

Originally Posted by meantime

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">

Modifying this to :

The first is correct - your modification commented out the DOCTYPE, which I think will have thrown IE6 into quirks mode and cause various things to render differently.

**all4nerds** · Dec 27, 2005 11:12

Hello

If you cannot select text, it’s usually a small error in your html or text is blocked by a layer, maybe show your page or html

**meantime** · Dec 30, 2005 15:10

Thanks for the correction on the Doctype tag. The problem may well lie in the way I am treating layers - I would be grateful for any assistance. Below is a link to a (much stripped down) webpage. Blocking parts of the text with the text cursor - i.e. pairs of words for instance - is still difficult. I am using IE6.

http://www.a2arts.co.uk/css-test/

Style sheet at :

http://www.a2arts.co.uk/css-test/a2-2005-001-test.css

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