Can't select text in pages to edit

can't select text in pages to edit

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Peter

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Design View - Can't Select Text, Only Divs

This is a page I did not build, and I hope I can describe this properly. Here's the published page -
www.wheeltime.com
I'm in CS4 and there are two things going on when trying to edit in design view. The first is I can't select text of content. Clicking to select said content, say a line of text or a word, selects and highlights the entire div container and all the content within in one big chunk. Why is DW not letting me select the actual content? This is the first time I've enver encountered this issue.
This is the same for all the div ontainers on the page. But another, perhaps related problem, has to do with this content area. In design view, there's a fixed height, so not only can I not select the content, but I can't see it all. It's OK in the browser, expands as it should. I've looked at all the properties anywhere and don't see any height attribute anywhere, especially those that enclose this area of content.
One this that has be wondering - this content area is warpped in a "main-content" div, with a class applied. But this div has no corresponding entry or properties in the style sheet. I can see where a div can be used that has no specific properies of it's own, but is it OK to not be mentioned at all in the style sheet? And can this affect what's going on in design view editing?
So, I guess the question is - what is governing this inability to edit in Design view? Thank you in advance!!

Have you tried double clicking the content?
I'm not sure what causes this exactly, but I downloaded your page and ran it in my DWCS4. It did the same thing until I double clicked the content of the divs. That allowed me to select it without issue from that point on.
It may have something to do with the content being wrapped in <span> tags within each <div>.
Onto your other question, your <div id="main-container"class="container"> is being affected by the .container class in your style.css file rather than a #main-container id.
EDIT: HTML id's like <div id="main-content"> serve to identify elements for many purposes, not just css. There is no problem with giving an element an id simply for organizational purposes, though usually they are used as targets for javascripts, css or php scripting purposes.

"Can I select only one page from a PDF document to convert to an excel doc. ?"

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No, so extract one page, then convert.

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Can't select text on a safari search results page

Hi, I'm using an Ipad 3 I have safari sset to use the google search in settings
but when I search for something and it shows the results page I can only select links holding my finger on the text below the link does nothing.
sometimes the answer i'm looking for is in the text and I can just copy it instead of having to click the link to see it.

I found out that you gotta do a double tap and hold the only problem is its cumbersome and it only works if safari is set to search google or yahoo if it's set to use bing it does not work at all..
I've added the code below which will unlock the text select feature when selecting text on a search results page
I wrote this java script which allows you to just press and hold on the text to select it.. gets rid of having to double tap and hold and acts like select does on all the other apps. It will also work if your search engine is set to bing.
to use you will need 2 book marks 1 book mark is for google & yahoo the other is for bing
add any book mark then go into it and edit it, in the title type "Unlock Text Selection"
just below the title paste this javascript in
javascript:void(s = 'hdurj123'); s = '(' + s + ')'; x = new RegExp(s, 'gi'); rn = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100); rid = 'z' + rn; b = document.body.innerHTML; b = b.replace(x, '<span name=' + rid + ' id=' + rid + ' style=\'color:#000;background-color:white; font-weight:bold;\'>hdurj123</span>'); void(document.body.innerHTML = b);
then save it under the book marks bar
create a second bookmark and edit it
in the title type "Unlock Selection Bing" and below that past this java script in
javascript:void(s = 'results'); s = '(' + s + ')'; x = new RegExp(s, 'gi'); rn = Math.floor(Math.random() * 100); rid = 'z' + rn; b = document.body.innerHTML; b = b.replace(x, '<span name=' + rid + ' id=' + rid + ' style=\'background-color:white; font-weight:bold;\'>results</span>'); void(document.body.innerHTML = b);
if your search engine is set to yahoo or google:
fire up safari and do a search for something
when the search results show click on the bookmark "Unlock Text Selection"
now you will be able to just press and hold on the text to select it and if you move it around you can select individual words.
if your search engine is set to bing
fire up safari and do a search for something
when the search results show, click on the bookmark "Unlock Selection Bing"
now you will be able to select text with just a press and hold and even individual words
this only works for search results pages I tried it on a page after I clicked the link and it caused safari to display the page source instead of the page.. I just use it for searches
here's an example of setting up the bookmark:
here's what it looks like on a bing search if your search engine is set to bing, in settings:
you can see that I was able to select the individual words, *** if your in portrait you may have to zoom in a bit *** landscape works without having to zoom at all

Can't select text boxes with Type Tool to write in on pages, only on Master Page

I'm unable to use the Type Tool to select the tax boxes on a document page in Indesign CC. I can select it on the Master Page. I can write on the Master Page. If I apply the Master Page afterwards, the written text from the Master Page appear on the document page, just as it should. But whenever I try to select a column on a document page, all the Type Tool does is draw a new text box (which I can select and write in). What's up with that? I applied the Master multiple times. If I can write on a the Master Page, why not on the document page?

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Man... Just found out after build several web sites that, if you want a browser to show a title other than the explicit name of the page in the left column, you need to edit the text in the header.
Easy enough. So now, in an existing web site I've built, I turn "show navigation menu" back on so I can see the header text. problem is, I can't select it. All the names up there are the names of my pages. If I click on the box, I can resize it, but I can't select the text at all to change it. If I click on one of the page names, it takes me to that page, so the links are working.
To calrify... I don't want to show this header nav bar. I just want to be able to control the name that comes up in the browser frame, without actually changing the name of the page.
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B

When you first create a page there is a text box at the top just under the navbar with the name of the theme in it. Whatever is in that text box will be the text that shows in the top of the browser's window, i.e. Welcome, About Me, My Photos, etc. (that is if you don't change that text).
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Can't highlight text in blue to edit

My Pages has just started doing this recently. When I go to highlight text it only highlights in gray and not the usual blue. And of course it will not let me edit. Has any one seen this or have any idea what is causing this?
I have an iMac running 10.10 and I am using Pages 4.3 I also have Pages 5.5.2 open because I need to view other files.

Blue is normal selected text.
Orange is placeholder text.
Grey can be a link. Of course it doesn't have to be a link, just declared as one. Clicking on it should have the Link edit dialog pop up, click on edit and remove.
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Can't select text or object

new to indesign here. I created a simple one page layout with a header that is a rectangle shape with text on it. saved it. next day can not select it to reposition or work on the text or anything. I am sure it is not a layers thing as there is only one layer. the only other thing I did with it is to export it as a pdf. but there are other text on the page that I can select just not the shape at the top. ???

Sounds like you were working on the master page when you made that header. If in fact that's where it is, and what you intended, you can access it for editing on a live page by Cmd [Ctrl] + Shift clicking it and overriding it onto the page, or you can edit onthe master page without overriding. If it doesn't really belong on the master page (and in my humble opinion most things you plan to edit don't), then select it on the master page, cut, and paste in place on the live page.
Are you a refugee Quark user? Master items in ID are far more sacrosanct that you are used to, and it takes a while to stop thinking Q and start thinking ID.
Peter

Can't select text or expand text box

Hi, everyone.
I have a Page Layout document that exhibiting some odd behavior under Pages 3.0.2.
Everything is ungrouped and unlocked. "Make master objects selectable" is on, although I don't think I made any of the objects master objects.
I can't select a text box using the mouse. The only way to get at the text is to perform a find. When the text is selected via the find I then have a cursor and can manipulate the text.
Also, the plus sign handle isn't responding to the mouse, so I can't expand the box. Very frustrating.
This seems very much like a bug, yes?
-André

Hi, Jerrold.
I thought of that, too, but choosing Select All selects every object except the one giving me the trouble. Also, there seems to be no evidence of another object over laying.
Ok, I just tried something slightly different that did the trick.
When the cursor is on the background, choosing Select All does nothing (yep, nothing, even though I can type). If I purposefully select an object, THEN choose Select All, all the objects get selected, except for the "problem" one.
But I noticed a menu item called "Make Background Objects Selectable." Choosing that gave the "problem" object handles and I am now able to edit it.
It seems that Select All wasn't doing what I expected, and that was the broken link in the chain.
Thank you!!
(And a public thank you to Dennis, too. Who correctly diagnosed the problem and sent back a working file. Awesome community.)

How can I see my entire page when editing?

When i edit my web page, the far right
column is over shadowed by the middle column.
so i can not see any of my text in the rows of that column unless i shrink the middle column
there is no scroll at the bottom.
so is there a way to view the entire page durring editing? thanx

I tried saving this page locally and edited in Contribute CS4 in both Windows and Mac, the horizontal scroll bar did appeared. Please find the same in the screenshot below.
Windows:
Mac:
Or you can try clearing the preferences and connecting again.
To Clear the preference, quit Contribute, and then delete the Contribute CS5(or CS4 or CS3) folder in C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\ and also run the following command " reg delete "HKCU\Software\Adobe\Contribute 6 (or 5 or 4.1)" /f " if you are using Contribute CS5 (or CS4 or CS3). Reconnect to the site and try the same scenario.
Note that, if you clear the preferences then no connection will be listed in Contribute, you need to recreate the connections. It will be like a fresh installation.

Applescript to copy selected text plus page URL in Safari

I do a lot of online research. I would like to be able to select text then run an applescript to add the selected text plus the page URL to the clipboard. I have found a couple scripts that come close to what I want to do, but they don't work. They get the URL and usually some other information, but instead of the slected text, I get "missing value". Does anyone know how I can make this work?
The scripts I found that do kind of what I want, but don't work are:
http://allancraig.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113:saving-se lected-text-and-url-from-safari-to-a-file&catid=40:applescript&Itemid=91
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080207080505152
This script works, but it copies URL and page title rather than URL and selected text:
https://gist.github.com/70565
I would be so grateful for some help on this.

After looking around a bit more –
first here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/9643814#9643814
then here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3197130?start=0&tstart=0
– I was able to cobble together this script:
tell application "Safari"
activate
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          set selectedText to (do JavaScript "(''+getSelection())" in document 1)
          set theDate to do shell script "date +'%d-%m-%Y'"
set the clipboard to theURL & return & selectedText & return & theDate as string
end tell
which does the trick very nicely. (I added the date to make it easier to do my references in college assignments.) I used Automator to save it as a Service and assigned a a keyboard shortcut (option + c). I believe this will speed up my workflow tremendously.

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