[Javascript] Disabling focus and selection on static text objects

[Chris Tifer]

Would you like this to cover the whole page, or specially defined elements?
I'm sure we're going to have to look into onSelectStart (or something like
tha t
if my memory suits me well this morning).

Chris Tifer

----- Original Message -----
From: "David T. Lovering" <dlovering at gazos.com>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 10:01 AM
Subject: [Javascript] Disabling focus and selection on static text objects


>
> I wonder -- does anybody know how to suppress the selection and/or focus
on screen widgets (like text labels in front of inputs, etc.)?  I've tried
the "usual" methods of defining onFocus='this.blur()' for everything which
is purely window dressing, but
> it makes no difference.  Same deal with 'readonly' and 'disable'.
>
> Back in the early Precambrian, Netscape had a directive (which if memory
serves was 'noselect') which you could tack into the contents of any
tag-field descriptor to permanently suppress focus from its widget.
Obviously, this doesn't exist anymore, but
> I'd like something that resembles it functionally.
>
> This problem manifests whenever someone drags the mouse too quickly over
the active page and half the screen gets 'selected', including things which
should never get the focus at all.  Also, I'd like to disable the means for
punks to double-click or
> drag-select labels just to mess up my head.
>
> -- Dave Lovering
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