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Question: I abuse a table as list of buttons, using the onclick even on each cell.

The problem is, the buttons are zoom buttons, and on clicking repeatedly too fast (doubleclick) you select the button (=table cell) text (even if you don’t want to) and that looks odd.

Can I switch that off ? Can I make text in a table non-selectable ?

Answer 1

Sorry, no longer relevant.

I searched along the lines of a css way to do it.
but the best i found was
http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1184318&page=1

It turned out I actually need to add a JS eventhandler:

onselectstart="javascript: return(false);"

The above works for IE and Chrome. But then, you still need to translate it for FireCrap:

onselectstart="return false;"
onmousedown="if (typeof event.preventDefault != 'undefined') {event.preventDefault();}"