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Select/highlight this text or a few words of this text with the mouse or with the keyboard. Selecting/highlighting a few words should be easy to do and not involve any kind of difficulty.

Select/highlight this text or a few words of this text with the mouse or with the keyboard. Selecting/highlighting a few words should be easy to do and not involve any kind of difficulty.

Select/highlight this text or a few words of this text with the mouse or with the keyboard. Selecting/highlighting a few words should be easy to do and not involve any kind of difficulty.

Main content in this CSS columnar layout goes in here

Steps to reproduce: select with the mouse or with the keyboard the text in the right column, in the orange column.

Actual results in MSIE 7: task impossible to perform

Expected results: task should be easy to do

Note: no problem whatsoever in all other non-IE browsers

"I'd also like to turn comments like 'IE 6 and IE 7 failed to render even basic columnar layouts in CSS' in to solid work items, but I don't understand the problem - much of the web uses columnar layouts that work in IE." - Chris Wilson, August 10th 2006

Steps to reproduce: select with the mouse or with the keyboard the text in the right column, in the orange column.

Actual results in MSIE 7: task impossible to perform

Expected results: task should be easy to do

Note: no problem whatsoever in all other non-IE browsers

"I'd also like to turn comments like 'IE 6 and IE 7 failed to render even basic columnar layouts in CSS' in to solid work items, but I don't understand the problem - much of the web uses columnar layouts that work in IE." - Chris Wilson, August 10th 2006

Steps to reproduce: select with the mouse or with the keyboard the text in the right column, in the orange column.

Actual results in MSIE 7: task impossible to perform

Expected results: task should be easy to do

Note: no problem whatsoever in all other non-IE browsers

"I'd also like to turn comments like 'IE 6 and IE 7 failed to render even basic columnar layouts in CSS' in to solid work items, but I don't understand the problem - much of the web uses columnar layouts that work in IE." - Chris Wilson, August 10th 2006

Steps to reproduce: select with the mouse or with the keyboard the text in the right column, in the orange column.

Actual results in MSIE 7: task impossible to perform

Expected results: task should be easy to do

Note: no problem whatsoever in all other non-IE browsers

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