Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· hornwood509

Prevent user highlighting element text

If you would like to prevent the user from selecting text inside an element, include onselectstart="return false;" inside your element tag.

<div onselectstart="return false;"></div>

I found this incredibly handy when allowing a user to drag select multiple < TD > in a < TABLE > which had text ('✔') inside of it, and it confused the user as to why the text is being highlighted.

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