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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 4:58 am
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Originally Posted by Kremmen
The little "search" and "search this forum" pop-up boxes are really cute, but exceptionally annoying.

Most times when I'm searching for anything, it'll be something I've seen somewhere, I'll have it copied from some other screen. However, the search boxes on this site go away if you right click on them, meaning that the standard functionality of right-clicking to get the copy/paste/etc drop-down fails. You then have to take hand off mouse and find ctrl-v on the keyboard.

This is a case of breaking/ignoring basic Windows application behaviour that's existed for a decade. Text fields should cause the standard cut/copy/paste/delete/etc options to appear when right clicked on. Can it be fixed?
Some browsers do have a problem with right-click in these javascript search fields, try using CONTROL-V to paste instead.
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