[imp] Problem with selecting text in an email

[Simon Brereton]

On Jan 16, 2013 12:23 PM, "Adam Bowen" <adamb at agitate.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 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.

This was discussed recently in the list.  Sadly Google is now so good the
only post I can find is yours.

Simon