Creating on behalf of Marc Kupper:
One of the quirks I have been running into comes up with copy/paste from ISFDB to my own notes. For example, I'll be on a title record and want the title and author. A select/drag of those two fields now also picks up the "ISFDB Title Record #" appended to the title. For example with {{t|881|Wave Without a Shore ISFDB Title Record # 881}} I was trying to copy/paste the title into this thread and it's grabbing the ISFDB Title Record # stuff too. If I go to a publication and try to add the title/author here for commentary I get:
Publication: Wave Without A Shore ISFDB Publication Record # 53996
Authors: C. J. Cherryh
A possible fix is to put the 'span' with the record number first in the HTML. For example, rather than
<li><b>Publication:</b> Wave Without A Shore
<span style="float:right"><b>ISFDB Publication Record # </b>53996</span>
you write out
<li><span style="float:right"><b>ISFDB Publication Record # </b>53996</span>
<b>Publication:</b> Wave Without A Shore
The displayed result is exactly the same with the Publication Record # off to the right but now someone select-dragging on the title and/or author won't accidentally pick up the record number.
The proposal may create some astonishment if someone uses their keyboard to select text. For example, click on the end of "shore", hold the shift key down, and hit the "home" key. You'll get the record number. If, rather than "home" you use the left arrow you'll discover that to the left of the "P" in "Publication" it jumps to the far right and then starts selecting characters/words from that section of text.
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