>Once in a while I come across a blog where I can't copy the text because I can't select it. For example, the following blog:
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>http://esmadridnomadriz.blogspot.com/
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>If you try to click and drag mouse over the text under the picture, you can't select the text. What is the reason for it? Must be something to do the way the information is presented in frames.

That page has script to override (and disregard) the mousedown event e.g::

document.onmousedown=disabletext
function disabletext(e){return false}

> But is there, still, a way to select the text?