disable text highlighting on double click in jQuery [duplicate]

Solution 1:

I'm writing on iPhone, while away from the desk, but a quick Google turned up this page: disable text selection with jQuery.

Edited in response to the 'dead link' comment (from @Herb Caudill). While the original link is, indeed, dead, it appears to be due to a site restructuring (rather than removal) and the new location for the article can be found here: http://chris-barr.com/index.php/entry/disable_text_selection_with_jquery/

And the code provided in that article is reproduced below:

$(function(){
    $.extend($.fn.disableTextSelect = function() {
        return this.each(function(){
            if($.browser.mozilla){//Firefox
                $(this).css('MozUserSelect','none');
            }else if($.browser.msie){//IE
                $(this).bind('selectstart',function(){return false;});
            }else{//Opera, etc.
                $(this).mousedown(function(){return false;});
            }
        });
    });
    $('.noSelect').disableTextSelect();//No text selection on elements with a class of 'noSelect'
});

jQuery snippet written by Chris Barr, of chris-barr.com, as accessed on Friday, 21^st of January, 2011.

Solution 2:

I solved this using the non-standard CSS keyword user-select:

.unselectable {
  -moz-user-select: none;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  -ms-user-select: none;
}

Solution 3:

If you use jQuery UI you can disable text selection as simple as that:

$("body").disableSelection();

Solution 4:

//function to be reused later
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() ;
  }
}

$('p').click(clearSelection);

Source

Solution 5:

I had the same problem and this worked for me:

li.noselection::selection {
    background-color: transparent;
}

I tested it on Chrome, Firefox, EDGE and IE from 7 to 10.

P.S. This only disables the "visual effect", the text still gets selected. I hope that's why this got downvoted, because if your problem is only esthetical this solution works 100%.