How can I prevent selecting text in Google Chrome?

Question

Doesn\'t oEvent.preventDefault(); work in GC? I need to prevent selecting text when the onmove event is triggered.

EDIT: It turns out to be very easy...

Answer 1

To do it using JavaScript:

var el = document.getElementById("myElement"), s = el.style;
s.userSelect = "none";
s.webkitUserSelect = "none";
s.MozUserSelect = "none";
el.setAttribute("unselectable", "on"); // For IE and Opera

Note that for IE and Opera, the unselectable attribute isn't inherited by an element's children, so any child elements of el will also need unselectable to be set to "on".