[imp] Problem with selecting text in an email

Adam Bowen adamb at agitate.org.uk
Wed Jan 16 16:26:47 UTC 2013


Hi All,

I'm a relatively new user to Horde but have now installed it on two  
servers and everything is working very well, so thank you to all  
involved with this fine product.

On to my problem (there had to be one, didn't there?):

IMP Version: 5.0.3 (installed as part of the Horde 5.0.3 webmail package)
Server OS: CentOS 6
Client OS: Windows 2003 Server and CentOS 6
Browsers: IE 9, Firefox 18 and Google Chrome 23.0.1271.91

I don't seem to be able to select text (for copying) with the mouse  
when I am viewing a text/plain email in the popup window (not the  
preview panel). It just won't highlight. I have tried it on the latest  
versions of Chrome, Firefox and IE (under Windows and Linux) and they  
all behave the same, and I have also tried it on the two different  
installs that I have of Horde and it is the same on both. If I press  
CTRL-A (select all) then the page does highlight (although it then  
impossible to un-highlight the text with the mouse).

If the email is text/html, the text selection works fine. It also  
works fine if I view email in the preview panel (as opposed to the pop  
up window).

I suspected that it was perhaps some weird javascript of css that was  
causing it, or an HTML div that was overlayed over the text area of  
the window, but I tried removing bits and pieces (using the developer  
tools) and disabling Javascript, and I got it down to next to nothing  
and it still wouldn't work.

I also grep-ed through the code for the various *-user-select css  
styles that can disable text selection, and I did find it in the  
default screen.css file, but I deleted all the styles when I stripped  
down the html and it didn't seem to be causing it.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Adam


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