How to disable text selection highlighting using CSS?
For anchors that act like buttons (for example, Questions, Tags, Users, etc. at the top of the Stack Overflow page) or tabs, is there a CSS standard way to disable the highlighting effect if the user accidentally selects the text?
I realize this could be done with JavaScript, and a little googling yielded the Mozilla-only
-moz-user-select option.
Is there a standard-compliant way to accomplish this with CSS, and if not, what is the "best practice" approach?
Answer:
According to Can I use, the
user-select is currently supported in all browsers except Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions (but sadly still needs a vendor prefix).
All of the correct CSS variations are:
.noselect {
-webkit-touch-callout: none; /* iOS Safari */
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Safari */
-khtml-user-select: none; /* Konqueror HTML */
-moz-user-select: none; /* Firefox */
-ms-user-select: none; /* Internet Explorer/Edge */
user-select: none; /* Non-prefixed version, currently
supported by Chrome and Opera */
}<p>
Selectable text.
</p>
<p class="noselect">
Unselectable text.
</p>
Note that it's a non-standard feature (i.e. not a part of any specification). It is not guaranteed to work everywhere, and there might be differences in implementation among browsers and in the future browsers can drop support for it.
More information can be found in Mozilla Developer Network documentation.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/826782/how-to-disable-text-selection-highlighting-using-css?page=1&tab=active#tab-top
