Opened 15 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#7523 confirmed Bug
IE Can't Drag and Drop text outside of paragraph
| Reported by: | Michael Camden | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Core : Pasting | Version: | 3.0 |
| Keywords: | HasPatch | Cc: | camden.michael@… |
Description
I'm unable to drag and drop text outside of any paragraph elements in IE.
Steps to reproduce:
- In the ckeditor demo, clear out all text leaving only a single paragraph.
- Select some text from a word document, and drag it to the editor.
- Anywhere below the first line the mouse cursor is crossed out, and a drop is disallowed.
Expected result:
Like in other browsers you should be able to drop text anywhere in the editor, regardless of if there is a paragraph tag there or not.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by
| Keywords: | ie drag and drop can't drop outside paragraph removed |
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| Status: | new → confirmed |
| Version: | 3.5.2 → 3.0 |
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by
| Keywords: | HasPatch added |
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I've just discovered a fix for this. Basically IE needs to have the body, and html containers height specified before it will allow a drop. I've added this to my editor area css file...
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
height: 95%\9;
*height: 85%;
}
Due to the padding around the body, if you set the body height to 100% it will render a scroll bar. The height value changes fairly drastically in IE7 and below.
I have tested this method on IE 9,8,7 and FF 3.6.

It is impossible to drop text out side the paragraph in all versions of IE.
I couldn't drop anything in Opera 11.01 even inside paragraphs with text.