# Highlighting text **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 8, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426 "2019-01-08T20:29:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/1 "2019-01-08T20:29:27Z")
Help. I have a new computer and am having to reestablish all of my logins and such. I know there is a problem with SDMB where you can’t highlight text until you change something in your settings, but I can’t remember what it is. Can somebody enlighten me? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/2 "2019-01-08T20:36:33Z")
You can’t highlight text if you are using that weird sultantheme. You can change it temporarily using the dropdown at the bottom of a given thread or permanently somewhere in your CP. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/3 "2019-01-08T20:36:38Z")
Forum skin. Scroll to the bottom on the left. You want Straight Dope 3.7.3 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/4 "2019-01-08T20:37:20Z")
Down at the bottom of your screen, change from sultanstheme to the other style. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/5 "2019-01-08T21:32:11Z")
Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/6 "2019-01-17T20:54:40Z")
I finally got irked enough to come into this part of the board to figure this out. This was the only website where I couldn’t highlight with the mouse. Thanks for the quick fix. What the heck is the point of the other format/skin/whatever? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/7 "2019-01-17T20:56:00Z")
I understand that being mobile friendly ups the Google rankings. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/8 "2019-01-17T21:03:13Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > I understand that being mobile friendly ups the Google rankings. Which is odd, because that sultantheme is buggy as heck on my phone… I switched to the other on and have way fewer problems. ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/highlighting-text/827426/9 "2019-01-17T22:28:15Z")
> [@Orwell](#): > > I finally got irked enough to come into this part of the board to figure this out. This was the only website where I couldn’t highlight with the mouse. Thanks for the quick fix. What the heck is the point of the other format/skin/whatever? A small effort to have some pretension to the mobile friendliness by having a skin that is supposed to be mobile friendly. Do not worry, in approximately 6 years they will develop the courage to fix the obviously broken and badly coded skin.