You want to prevent text from being selected/highlighted; whether to prevent copying and pasting or accidental text selection.
To solve this problem you will want to set the user-select CSS property to none.
Because each browser is slightly different, the CSS is slightly convoluted because each browser has a slightly different prefixed version of the user-select. Let's take a look at the example:
In the above example, try selecting the header Title. It is unselectable; however, you can click the button. The user-selectproperty prevents (in this example) all text button being selectable.
If you only wish to apply it to specific elements, you could update the example replacing * with a class name.
Published on Feb 20, 2019 Tags: The Ultimate CSS Tutorial for Beginner Programmers
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