[imp] Problem with selecting text in an email

[Adam Bowen]

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com>:

> 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.

I did search both with Google and with the Gmane archive of this  
mailing list, but nothing came up for my search terms. Now that I am a  
member of this list I will hopefully slowly become more aware of  
issues/progress. Thanks for your help.

Adam