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Disable Text Selection on HTML via Javascript and/or CSS

• anigbrowl 14y ago
  This is a great way to annoy people who visit your page. anything that's actually of value can be accessed from the developer console anyway. I personally do not appreciate people futzing with the behavior of my browser.
  • shane_armstrong 14y ago
    I second this, in chrome, nip to the webkit developer console and copy the text directly, or copy the html of the section i want and output it on my server, pow, I circumvented your hours of research on this in the space of about 30 seconds.
• bdfh42 14y ago
  This is silly - if it is published on the web then the text is in the public domain. Side-stepping the suggested restrictions is trivial for anyone with any web skills - so they will just upset the rest - presumably those the web site is intended to engage and market to.
• jejones3141 14y ago
  Reminds me of some sites that turn off right click on images via Javascript to keep one from saving them... too bad for them that Firefox lets one turn off Javascript. As bdfh42 said, all this succeeds in doing is irritating people--worst case, take screenshots and transcribe the text at your leisure.