Copy and Past not possible for IE users in VB2.0 final?

[Black Tiger]

I'm sorry, I can't get out of the way very good with the new search system.

Anyway, is it known that copying and pasting is not possible anymore in VB2.0 final for IE users but Netscape users do not have problems?

Is there a way to change certain things so IE users als can copy and paste again (selecting tekst with mouse and then ctrl-c/ctrl-v stuff).

I would really appreciate some help or a link to another thread in which this item came up.
Thankx in advance!

[Steve Machol]

>Anyway, is it known that copying and pasting is not
>possible anymore in VB2.0 final for IE users but
>Netscape users do not have problems?

What are you talking about? I just copy and pasted your comments above without a problem. And I use IE 5.0.

[Black Tiger]

Well.. I'm working with 5.5 and several users complaint about it, also working with 5.5

When clicking mouse, they get a hand with a finger and after that and they can't select text.
I tried it also with version 5.5, same problem.

[Black Tiger]

>What are you talking about? I just copy and pasted your comments above without a problem. And I use IE 5.0.

???? VERY strange. When I try in here, there is no problem with copying and pasting.

Is there a setting in the CP which could prevent this? When trying on my own board (vb20final) it does not work.

[Wayne Luke]

I am using 5.5 and never had a problem selecting text for copy and paste.

vBulletin does not disable any user interface tools by default.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Black Tiger
>What are you talking about? I just copy and pasted your comments above without a problem. And I use IE 5.0.

???? VERY strange. When I try in here, there is no problem with copying and pasting.

Is there a setting in the CP which could prevent this? When trying on my own board (vb20final) it does not work.

What is your URL?

[RobAC]

I am currently using IE 5.5 with all service pack updates here as well as IE 6.0 in work and I can copy and paste text here and all other sites featuring vBulletin Forumswithout a problem. There are some sites, such as my own that use a special JavaScript block to prevent users from right clicking over a page and easily copying text or pictures. When you right click over the page, you will get a pop up message which is specified by the web developer who built the page. Obviously there's ways of getting around it, but for the less informed web surfer, it works quite well.

[Black Tiger]

Yep, I know what you mean, but I don't have such javascript running on my site as far as I know.
I just run the board. I thought first it was in some hacked php piece, but since I upgraded I uploaded every file from the full release so everything should be overwritten.

You can test for yourself.
Try http://www.satelitefun.org/bbs

You get the login screen, try to select the "unregistered" text which is filled in standard.
I can't manage that with IE.
On this board however it's no problem with IE.

[tubedogg]

It's because you open, but don't close, a link tag around the whole page.

Look in your header template and add </a> after this

<p><p align="center"><a href="$bburl"><img src="{title image}">

[Black Tiger]

You're great Tubedogg!
This was indeed the solution to the problem.
So it's no bug in VB2.0 Final.

Thanks may times!!!

[ixian]

This may have happened months ago but I wanted to let you guys know that at least some of your users search the forums first before posting This saved me a lot of grief! I recently re-did my header to include an imagemap and I too forgot to close it with </a>. This was REALLY bugging me.


Thanks,

Ix

[mvigod]

does anyone else have a problem with IE 6 when they are cutting and pasting code in the templates here and you try to select some code and it auto selects the words and quotes or end tags sometimes incorrectly? I want to be able to turn off any kind of auto select in the template editing boxes so I can copy just the characters I want without the extra stuff being highlighted automatically.

This is probably an IE thing rather than Vbulletin but wondered if anybody else found a way to disable this or work around it as it's a huge PIA!

Thanks.

[tubedogg]

It's an IE thing and there's no way around it that I'm aware of.

[mvigod]

well...I was afraid of that...at least tell me you have the same problem and it drives you up the wall too when cutting and pasting in templates!! somebody share my pain.

[tubedogg]

Yes it drives me nuts.