Last modified: 2009-08-15 20:28:19 UTC
Since the class for the content area for namespace 0 was changed from "ns-0" to "ns-0 ltr", there is a new Internet Explorer CSS problem. The background of an article is correctly shown white, but if you copy the whole article and for example paste it to word, you get the blue background, which is normally only shown on pages not in namespace 0. The content-id gets this blue background in MediaWiki:Monobook.css (affects at least german and english wikipedia) and is then overridden for class "ns-0". Internet Explorer (6 and 7) copies it with blue background anyway. I tested it with overriding ".ns-0.ltr #content", but even this doesn't work...
I can't replicate this with either WordPad or OpenOffice 2.0.1 on Windows XP SP 2 with IE 7 beta 2. Might be a MS Word bug, or some weird misfeature?
Able to reproduce using Windows XP SP2, Word 2002. Steps taken: 1. Open http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 2. Ctrl-A to select all 3. Paste into Word Page pasted with what looks like a faint blue background. Selected another background colour for the document, and the discolouration persists, so I guess this is what you're talking about?
Yes. It's also when you only select the text of one page. It's the color of ".ns-0 #content" in MediaWiki:Monobook.css. I don't really know, how copying and so on in windows works (how the formating is preserved when pasting to another application...) and I don't know how to fix it, I only reproduced an issue, which was reported to info-de@wikimedia.org. So it's a stupid thing, but I thought reporting it here is a good idea.
Christian, can you try using wordpad (should be in windows already) and or in openoffice writer ( http://download.openoffice.org/ , free). That would help track if its a word bug :)
Win XP SP 3 + IE 8 + WordPad -> no background Win XP SP 3 + IE 8 + OpenOffice 3.1 -> no background I don't have an actual copy of Microsoft Word on hand to test at the moment. Is this a problem that still exists? With what, if any versions of Word/IE?
I just checked it with IE 8 (running Windows Vista) and Word 2003. It seems to work now. I reported this bug 2006, when IE6 was the current version and I believe, it was a bug in IE - so we shouldn't care and this bug could be closed.
Marking WFM. Seems to be an issue with IE6 + Word. Nothing we can really do to help this.
