Can't edit text in CS3 design view

Hi,
I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
pages, practically the whole page content is inside it.
In DW CS3 design view very often (maybe 50% of all times) if
I click inside it to edit the text, DW selects the entire DIV tag.
The cursor becomes like a cross with arrows, the DIV border becomes
outlined with a thick blue line, and I can't edit the text no
matter how much times I click. If I move the mouse with left button
pressed, this moves the DIV and changes the .css file where the
position is defined. DIV can't be de-selected with Escape, left or
right clicking.
The only way to get out of this is to click somewhere in the
code view, then go back to design view where hopefully text can be
edited. Sometimes I have to repeat this twice or even 3 times ,
it's extremely annoying and time consuming.
Is there any workaround?
Like to disable selection of containers in design view, or at
least a quick way to deselect the current selection?
This problem does not appear in DW8 when editing the same
files.
thanks

> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
pages,
> practically
> the whole page content is inside it.
Nasty. Why?
Do you have an overflow style on this div?
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"harpo_" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi,
>
> I have a big absolutely positioned DIV tag in most of my
pages,
> practically
> the whole page content is inside it.
> In DW CS3 design view very often (maybe 50% of all
times) if I click
> inside it
> to edit the text, DW selects the entire DIV tag. The
cursor becomes like a
> cross with arrows, the DIV border becomes outlined with
a thick blue line,
> and
> I can't edit the text no matter how much times I click.
If I move the
> mouse
> with left button pressed, this moves the DIV and changes
the .css file
> where
> the position is defined. DIV can't be de-selected with
Escape, left or
> right
> clicking.
> The only way to get out of this is to click somewhere in
the code view,
> then
> go back to design view where hopefully text can be
edited. Sometimes I
> have to
> repeat this twice or even 3 times , it's extremely
annoying and time
> consuming.
>
> Is there any workaround?
> Like to disable selection of containers in design view,
or at least a
> quick
> way to deselect the current selection?
>
> This problem does not appear in DW8 when editing the
same files.
>
> thanks
>
>

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any editable
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corrects the problem.
>Here is a sample template:
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pages use:
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ednerid wrote:
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