Make a ContentEditable div read-only?

Question

So I want the features of a contenteditable div (text selection via keyboard being the main one), but I don\'t want to allow the user to edit the text - I presumed a r

Answer 1

You could also try this, plain javascript solution

document.getElementById('div').onkeydown = function (e) {
    var event = window.event ? window.event : e;
    return !(!~[37, 38, 39, 40].indexOf(e.keyCode) && !e.ctrlKey);
}

This allows selection using arrow keys and copying the same.