What is the best way to prevent highlighting of text when clicking on its containing div in javascript?

Question

I am building a menu in HTML/CSS/JS and I need a way to prevent the text in the menu from being highlighted when double-clicked on. I need a way to pass the id\'s of several

Answer 1

You could use this CSS to simply hide the selection color (not supported by IE):

#id::-moz-selection {
  background: transparent;
}

#id::selection {
  background: transparent;
}

Answer 2

You could:

• Give it ("it" being your text) a onclick event
• First click sets a variable to the current time
• Second click checks to see if that variable is x time from the current, current time (so a double click over, for example, 500ms, doesn't register as a double click)
• If it is a double click, do something to the page like adding hidden HTML, doing document.focus(). You'll have to experiment with these as some might cause unwanted scrolling.

Answer 3

Hope this is what you are looking for.

<script type="text/javascript">
  function clearSelection() {
    var sel;
    if (document.selection && document.selection.empty) {
      document.selection.empty();
    } else if (window.getSelection) {
      sel = window.getSelection();
      if (sel && sel.removeAllRanges)
        sel.removeAllRanges();
    }
  } 
</script>

<div ondblclick="clearSelection()">Some text goes here.</div>

Answer 4

In (Mozilla, Firefox, Camino, Safari, Google Chrome) you can use this:

div.noSelect {
  -moz-user-select: none; /* mozilla browsers */
  -khtml-user-select: none; /* webkit browsers */
}

For IE there is no CSS option, but you can capture the ondragstart event, and return false;

Update

Browser support for this property has expanded since 2008.

div.noSelect {
  -webkit-user-select: none;  /* Chrome all / Safari all */
  -moz-user-select: none;     /* Firefox all */
  -ms-user-select: none;      /* IE 10+ */
}

https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/u/user-select/