highlighting
im a compulsive highlighter.
not the squeeky bright-yellow/orange/green on paper highlighting. i highlight whatever i happen to be reading on the computer. everything from text documents to web pages.
i dont highlight the exact words im reading. its more of a sporadic jerky highlighting of the text that happens to be under my cursor.
its contageous too - i passed it on to my sister first, then my husband, and one of my brothers. go ahead and try it - you might find yourself unable to stop.
that being said, whats up with purely-css-driven sites that wont let me highlight a few words and/or lines at my discression (like so and so) when other purely-css-driven sites (like me and her) let me highlight to my hearts content?
whats different with their css? i cant find much of a difference, and its bugging the heck out of me. i want to know how to prevent my page from becoming anti-highlighting.
i demand free highlighting for all!
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why do none of your pics work suddenly?
none of the graphics? or none of the dog picture?
none of the pictures at all were working. none of the header pics or the dog pics or any others on this page.
i figured you were upgrading your layout or something. :) but no, it's all working now.
odd. i asked because a few people were/are having problems seeing the dog pictures.
I'd have to look more, but I'm pretty sure your highlight problem is because of the absolute positioning used by PoodleCircus and Plasticbag. Not that Plasticbag has the best CSS anyway, resize the window and their styles push the content off the left side of the screen.
my site has the absolute positioning as well for the graphics, background, main content area, and both of the link sections.
the images have stopped working again, btw.
I'd sya I'd agree with steve.
It may have something to do with the use of margins (and negative margins!) messing around with browsers working out which text is being highlighted. I noticed it when i was doing my blog layout v2.
I'm no CSS expert, but i think that may be your problem.