Title: Widget Woes
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Widget Woes

 *  [heidikz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heidikz1/)
 * (@heidikz1)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes/)
 * This issue is IE 7 Specific concerning Text Widgets.
    Before upgrading to 2.3.1
   I could use ctrl+a to select the information in the text widget , I could also
   use ctrl+c and +v. Now I cannot. If I move outside of the text widget box and
   right click – select all, it will highlight the whole page (as it should). When
   using the right-click select all – it does nothing in the widget box. As I said
   this is only in IE 7 – in FireFox it works just fine.
 * Thanks in advance for any help.

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 *  Thread Starter [heidikz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heidikz1/)
 * (@heidikz1)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes/#post-649287)
 * In my desperation to get things working correctly decided to upload wp 2.3.1 
   to another directory – in the midst of uploading, the following file would not
   upload correctly – formatting.php
 * I decided to open the file and much to my surprise a good portion of it is greyed
   out.
 * in my editor it starts at line 543 this is what is posted from lines 542 to 547
 *     ```
       // WP fix for the bug with HTML comments
       	$newtext = str_replace("< !--","<!--",$newtext);
       	$newtext = str_replace("<    !--","< !--",$newtext);
   
       	return $newtext;
       }
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [heidikz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heidikz1/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes/#post-649287)
 * Status: not resolved

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