id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
5747	Cannot select text in text widget	nullbarriere	anonymous	"By reporting this I refer to Wordpress Forum [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/139464?replies=18]

In short: In (some versions of?) IE6 and/or IE7 the INPUT and TEXTAREA fields of widgets accepting text input in the options dialog (first but not only the text widget) do not allow text selecting/highlghting.

My Solution as posted and worked with for while now:

I looked into the topic a little deeper. Theres a bug with jQuery Dragging. The Options Dialog of widget is draggable (reasons for that are not obvious to me). Since IE is highlighting text of layers under a dragged div, jQuery intentionally disables highlighting while dragging divs. Well, I looked into it just a little deeper, so I dont know yet how to really fix this keeping the draggability of the dialog, but for a workaround I came up with the idea of just disabling the (unneeded?) draggability:

in wp-admin/widgets.php commented out the line
jQuery('#<?php echo $widget['id']; ?>control').Draggable({handle: '.controlhandle', zIndex: 1000});
"	defect (bug)	closed	normal	2.8	Widgets	2.3	normal	fixed