Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Re: clearing or preventing double-click selection

On Sep 12, 9:29 pm, decitrig <rws...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on an application that responds to double clicks on text
> labels, and I'd like to either disable double-click text selection or
> clear it from within the event handler. I tried $doc.selection.clear()
> in a native method, but apparently $doc.selection is "not an object" -
> it may be that the selection isn't occurring until after the double-
> click handler is getting called. I did try stopPropagation and
> preventDefault, neither helped.
>
> Any pointers?

There's a CSS property that you can use to disable text selection:
user-select.
It's available in WebKit (-webkit-user-select) and Firefox (-moz-user-
select). I can't tell for Opera (-o-user-select?).
In IE, you'd have to listen to an onselectionstart event and cancel
it.

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