Browser Cut and Paste

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Mario

Hi, I'm using XP Pro

I'm wondering if there is an on/off switch for my cut and paste option.

I frequent a forum that doesn't allow me to cut and paste posts.
I'm told the problem is at my end and not a problem with the form.

Could it actually be at my end?

M.
 
There is no switch as such. How are you trying to cut & Paste and is it
when you are posting to the forum? You can only cut and paste WHEN you
are posting or editing your own posts. You can't cut and paste (i.e.
edit) somebody's post. I hope you understand this.

Please explain which forum is this and which browser are you using?

Thanks.
 
The forum I frequent does not allow editing even your own posts.
I asked the moderator and he says I should be able to paste into my own
posts.
So I asked another member and he said he could so I was thinking it might be
a setting
in my XP.
Having said that I can cut and paste to other places and documents, just not
that forum.
If one concludes correctly then you'd have to conclude it's the forum and
not me?

M.
 
Mario said:
I'm wondering if there is an on/off switch for my cut and paste option.

I frequent a forum that doesn't allow me to cut and paste posts.
I'm told the problem is at my end and not a problem with the form.
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Any web site can request the web browser not permit context menu
operations which includes copy-n-paste.

In IE:

<body onContextMenu="return false">

The onContextMenu is an event handler which is defined to basically do
nothing (it simply returns a boolean value of false which doesn't do
anything in and of itself).

Chrome and Firefox, by default (as I've read), disable or block the
disabling of the right-click context menu. So web pages that attempt to
kill the context menu won't work for these web browsers.

Presumably you are using the mouse to highlight a selection of text.
Then you need to use the context menu to copy the selected text into the
OS clipboard. If the context menu is disabled, have you tried using the
Ctrl+C shortcut combination to copy the selected text?

In IE, to eliminate having to use the mouse to select text, you can use
the keyboard in "caret browsing" mode. Hit the F7 key to switch between
non-caret and caret browsing modes. If you want to default to caret
browsing mode when you load IE, go under Internet Options -> Advanced
and enable the "Enable Caret Browsing for new windows and tabs". I
tried this mode for awhile but didn't care for it. However, it won't
take long to train you into using the almost universal keyboard
shortcuts for copy and paste (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_navigation
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/ie8/caretbrowse.aspx
 
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