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From: Simon D. M. <di...@bi...> - 2000-12-09 11:15:35
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> Why not just disable selection events all together. It was done in the
> dragEvent object way-back when.
> Simply put:
> if (is.ie) // Prevents text selection when dragging.
> document.onselectstart = function () { return false; };
> That stopped IE from selecting other text on the screen when a layer was
> being dragged.
So presumably you'd have to reverse the change onmouseout or onmouseup.
If you you use:
if (is.ie) document.selection.clear();
you don't need to do that.
>The cancelBrowseEvent is not even needed in the label widget for it to
>work correctly. The setting of the cursor (which is done too) seems
>to do excactly the same thing. I removed the cancelBrowseEvent in IE
>5 and had no troubles with the examples.
Just changing the cursor didn't turn off selection on my IE5/Win
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