How-To for Turning Off Text Selection Highlighting
Lucas Simon
12 June 2024
How-To for Turning Off Text Selection Highlighting

To enhance the user experience while interacting with interactive features such as buttons and tabs, it is imperative to disable text selection highlighting. In addition to browser-specific variations like -webkit-user-select and -moz-user-select, this article also discusses CSS attributes like user-select and a JavaScript method utilizing onselectstart.

How to Turn Off Text Selection Highlighting in CSS Guide
Daniel Marino
5 June 2024
How to Turn Off Text Selection Highlighting in CSS Guide

Turning off text selection By eliminating unintentional text selection, highlighting for anchors that function as buttons improves user experience. The use of CSS and JavaScript together allows developers to guarantee cross-browser compatibility. While adding JavaScript event listeners takes care of other cases, applying user-select attributes in CSS takes care of the majority of modern browsers.