Highlighting the text on a button in IE

[Clairvoyant1332]

This is something I stumbled across once while trying to cut and paste text in IE. This trick works in IE 5.5 and IE 6.0.

Open up any web page in IE that contains a standard button. Drag over a portion of the page so that a button is highlighted (or press ctrl-a to select all). Now drag over the text of the highligted button, as if to select it. You'll find that the text on the button will in fact be highlighted. When you release the mouse, be sure to do so just over or under the button, otherwise the button will get pressed. You can then copy the text with ctrl-c or drag and drop the text somewhere else.

I've searched around and have not been able to find any mention of this functionality. Is anyone else aware of this, and if so why do you suppose it's even in there?

Dennis

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

why do you suppose it's even in there?

Presumably so people can copy text from buttons.

Dan

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