Question

I am trying to create a text button using simple span and formatting the text and providing onclick behaviour. The problem is when a user clicks on the button, it sometimes highlights the text of the button.

I want to avoid such behaviour, because it looks damn ugly when the text is selected. Is there any CSS/JavaScript/(jQuery) content I can use to avoid this?

Answer 1

spanid.onselectstart = function() {return false;} // ie
spanid.onmousedown = function() {return false;} // mozilla

First result on Google by the way…

extra

$('#spanid').selectstart(function(event) {
  event.preventDefault();
});