disable text selection except input

Question

I\'ve got this snippet of code to disable all text selection. How would I go about disabling all text except for input? I tried $(\'* :not(input)\').disableTextSelec

Answer 1

This works in IE and FF:

    jQuery(document).ready(function () {
        //Disable default text selection behavior
        toggleEnableSelectStart(false);

        //for inputs it must be possible to select text
        jQuery("input[type=text]").focusin(function () { toggleEnableSelectStart(true); });
        jQuery("input[type=text]").mouseover(function () { toggleEnableSelectStart(true); });
        jQuery("input[type=text]").focusout(function () { toggleEnableSelectStart(false); });
        jQuery("input[type=text]").mouseout(function () { toggleEnableSelectStart(false); });

    });

    function toggleEnableSelectStart(enable) {
        document.onmousedown = function (e) { return enable; };
        document.onselectstart = function (e) { return enable; }; ;
    }