IE: preventing text selection

Rafal Rutkowski

Hi,
Does anyone know a way to prevent IE from selecting text when a user
clicks the text while holding shift/ctrl key?

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Rudy

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Martin Honnen

Rafal Rutkowski wrote:

Does anyone know a way to prevent IE from selecting text when a user
clicks the text while holding shift/ctrl key?

<div onselectstart="return false;">

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Martin Honnen
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Jul 20 '05 #2

Rafal Rutkowski

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:01:58 +0100, Martin Honnen <ma*******@yahoo.de> wrote:

Rafal Rutkowski wrote:
Does anyone know a way to prevent IE from selecting text when a user
clicks the text while holding shift/ctrl key?

<div onselectstart="return false;">

This is it. Thanks

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Rudy

Jul 20 '05 #3

kaeli

In article <sl*********************@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl>,
rr******@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl enlightened us with...

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:01:58 +0100, Martin Honnen <ma*******@yahoo.de> wrote:

Rafal Rutkowski wrote:
Does anyone know a way to prevent IE from selecting text when a user
clicks the text while holding shift/ctrl key?

<div onselectstart="return false;">

This is it. Thanks

All a user has to do to get around this is either turn off script or
view the source and copy/paste from that.

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Jul 20 '05 #4

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