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Stop a shift click from highlighting text

I have a table on my web page that have checkboxes on them. I have jquery code that allows me to shift click to check multiple rows for editing/removal. But when I shift click to select a range all of the text inside the range gets highlighted.

Is there any way using jquery or css to stop the text from being highlighted?

--EDIT--

    HTML code
...
<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <input type="checkbox">
    </td>
    <td>
      <div class="cam_ip">192.168.200.78</div>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <input type="checkbox">
    </td>
    <td>
      <div class="cam_ip">192.168.200.250</div>
    </td>
  </tr>
</tbody>

There can be x amount of rows. The jquery works when I click a row, that row is marked as an anchor, then when I shift click on another row it is marked as anchorrange, then a function is called which will loop through each row inside the range making it checked. The side effect of using e.shiftClick(); is that all the text within the range gets highlighted. I need to stop this side effect.

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DarylF Avatar asked Apr 20 '12 13:04

DarylF


1 Answers

CSS version

user-select: none;
-webkit-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;

also a possible related question to How to disable text selection highlighting using CSS?

Year later edit (integrating from comment):

Colleague pointed this out Is there a way to make text unselectable on an HTML page? - use unselectable="on" on whatever you want not selectable

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Thomas Jones Avatar answered Oct 05 '22 00:10

Thomas Jones