[24hoursupport] Re: Internet Explorer Selection Annoyance
- From: "Douglas S. Oliver" <dsoliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 24hoursupport <24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 19:12:23 -0700
I'm a linux user and don't use IE, but was thinking that you might
select "view source" if you can and copy/paste using the ctrl C and ctrl
V options. I think you should be able to select the text with the mouse
to do the copy and paste. Just a thought--d
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 11:55, chizotz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> OK, here is something I'm really, really getting tired of.
>
> When I try to select characters on a web page to copy and paste into another
> document, in Internet Explorer the selection simply refuses to select only
> the
> characters I want to select. For example, I'm working with Regular
> Expressions
> and want to copy and paste portions of examples from the web into my code
> editor to test them. So if I see the following snippet:
>
> (19|20)\d\d[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])
>
> and want to select only the section (0[1-9]|1[012]), Internet Explorer
> absolutely insists that I want to _really_ select .](0[1-9]|1[012])
>
> It would be even happier if I selected .](0[1-9]|1[012])[- but I can make it
> let me omit the last two characters. Or if I select from right to left, I can
> omit the first two characters, but then IE insists I want the extra [- at the
> end.
>
> I know exactly what I want to select and that aint it. I don't see a way to
> turn this very, very annoying "feature" off. Am I just missing it?
>
> By the way, that code snippet is for date validation. Not that it's important
> to the question :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
>
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