theDeSilva.com» disable selection http://www.thedesilva.com Andrew de Silva Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:27:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disable selection on browser using Javascript http://www.thedesilva.com/2010/03/disable-selection-on-browser-using-javascript/ http://www.thedesilva.com/2010/03/disable-selection-on-browser-using-javascript/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:48:23 +0000 Andrew de Silva http://www.thedesilva.com/?p=199
Here’s a quick way to disable selection on browsers using Javascript. Helpful if you don’t want somebody to select a bunch of text and copy and paste. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 window.onload = function() { disableSelection(document.body) }   function disableSelection(target){ if (typeof target.onselectstart!="undefined") //IE target.onselectstart=function(){return false} [...]]]>

Here’s a quick way to disable selection on browsers using Javascript. Helpful if you don’t want somebody to select a bunch of text and copy and paste.

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window.onload = function() {
	disableSelection(document.body)
}
 
function disableSelection(target){
if (typeof target.onselectstart!="undefined") //IE 
	target.onselectstart=function(){return false}
else if (typeof target.style.MozUserSelect!="undefined") //Firefox 
	target.style.MozUserSelect="none"
else //All other ie: Opera
	target.onmousedown=function(){return false}
target.style.cursor = "default"
}
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