Sortables / Portlets (get text with mouse disabled)

Sortables / Portlets (get text with mouse disabled)


I'm using JQuery Portlets and I've noticed that you can't use the
mouse to highlight any text within a portlet. In their own example on
their site you can see what I'm talking about, http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/#portlets.
I've figured out a way to use the Portlet 'Handle' option to set it up
so that dragging only happens by clicking and dragging from the header
of the Portlet, but the body of each portlet is still disabled and
text selection with the mouse still doesn't work,
http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/#option-handle
I've found that there is an undocumented core utility function called $
("#id").enableSelection() and I've tried to use that to enable mouse
interaction with the portlet content but so far no luck.
Anyone else figure out a way around this?