document.body.ondrag - Turns off text selection??

[econnections]

The code below will turn off text selection in IE5+. This is great when you have areas of text in tables that users can double-click get get further info presented on layers becoming visable. The code below stops the text you click on becoming selected (highlighted).

Does anyone knoe thr equivalent in Netscape, please?


document.body.ondrag = function () { return false; };

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Give the element a class of "unselectable", and then use this CSS:

.unselectable {
	-moz-user-select: none;
	-khtml-user-select: none;
	user-select: none;
}

This will fix it for any browser that supports the CSS (3?) "user-select" style, as well as Safari, Konqueror, and some Moz-based browsers.

Incidentally, for IE, you should not be using "ondrag" - you should be using "onselectstart", and you could even set the "unselectable" attribute for good measure:

element.onselectstart = function() { return(false); };
element.setAttribute('unselectable', 'on', 0);

Hope tihs helps,
Dan




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[econnections]

Dan, thanks.

I've been playing with the above on my test page.

http://global-office.co.uk/cfdocs/getting_started/my_app/Calander/line-height.htm

Its currently set to turn-off selection in NS7.2 using unselectable. See first table, middle row. You can double-click in any of the three cells and see windows.status message. If cell is empty the function would create a new calender appointment. If you d-click existing appointment then your allowed to update as shown by message.

The unselectable stops text selection in NS7.2. Is there an IE equivalent, please?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

The unselectable stops text selection in NS7.2. Is there an IE equivalent, please?

If you read my previous post, you will see I have already shown you this.

Dan



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