Question

In IE 10, when you click on any text while holding the CTRL key the browser selects the text (which means the text gains focus and I want to avoid this because I have some multi-select scenario where CTRL+click means add/remove-select).

How can I disable this “feature”?

BTW, I still want to be able to select the text using the usual mouse actions.

Answer 1

This feature can be disabled by disabling selection completely.

This can be done by using -ms-user-select which has been introduced in IE10.
(see also: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/HTML5/msUserSelect/Default.html)

Example: To disable selection add the following css class to the element containing the text or one of its parents:

.notselectable
{
    -ms-user-select: none;
}