114600 - unselectable text in webpage

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58704

(Core :: DOM: Selection, defect)

Description

[Joe Francis]

In url above, find where it says:

0.7 Thanks to
    Thanks to the following people for helpful info and comments (note: to avoid
automated spam address collection systems, I've munged their e-mail addresses in
an obvious way).

    Trevor Schroeder from http://www.zweknu.org
    Lachlan M. D. Cranswick <l.cranswick at dl dot ac dot uk>

That last line ("Lachlan M. D. Cranswick...") is selectabel only in it's
entirety.  You cannot select a character at a time.  I checked the source for
the page - that line is not an image or anything weird.  It is perfectly normal
text.  

this was on MacOS X.  QA, please try soe other platforms - I suspect it is xp bug.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page uses text-align:justify on the whole body.  Then it overrides this on
some elements.

Duplicate of "cannot select anything smaller than lines in justified text"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58704 ***

Comment 2

[Alex Stewart]

That's the most screwed up HTML I've ever read.  There's no body tag, but
there's a CSS rule (between sections 0.9 and 1) that includes BODY { text-align:
justify; }, so this is bug 58704 - cannot select anything smaller than lines in
justified text.  Verified Dup.