How can I prevent selecting text in Google Chrome?

Question

Doesn't oEvent.preventDefault(); work in GC? I need to prevent selecting text when the onmove event is triggered.

EDIT: It turns out to be very easy...

function disableSelection() {
   document.onselectstart = function() {return false;} // ie
   document.onmousedown = function() {return false;} // others
}
function enableSelection() {
   document.onselectstart = null; // ie
   document.onmousedown = null; // others
}

After that, there's no text selection triggered on the move event (ie. on the select event -- ie - indeed ie!)

Answer 1

-webkit-user-select: none CSS style controls whether the user is allowed to select the
text of the element.

For completeness sake, this covers all supporting browsers (IE is not considered a web browser):

.no-select
{
   user-select: none;
   -o-user-select:none;
   -moz-user-select: none;
   -khtml-user-select: none;
   -webkit-user-select: none;
}

To do it through Javascript, just create a class and add the node's attributes.

Answer 2

To do it using JavaScript:

var el = document.getElementById("myElement"), s = el.style;
s.userSelect = "none";
s.webkitUserSelect = "none";
s.MozUserSelect = "none";
el.setAttribute("unselectable", "on"); // For IE and Opera

Note that for IE and Opera, the unselectable attribute isn't inherited by an element's children, so any child elements of el will also need unselectable to be set to "on".