question reg ondragstart event

sbkumar · July 24th, 2008, 03:39 PM

Hello everyone,

Can I disable dragging and highliting the text or images (ie hold down the mouse key and drag over text/images with turns them to blue) using the ondragstart event?

I tried this -><body ondragstart="return false">
but doesnt seem to have any effect.Any other way?

Thanks in advance!

richard.york · August 23rd, 2008, 04:00 PM

You want onselectstart for IE and Safari, probably Opera too.

Mozilla uses CSS to control this in Firefox...

body {
-moz-user-select: none;
}

The drag and drop API is for dragging and dropping items, not selection. Only IE and Safari supports that API anyway.

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