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In User Interface Design, text selection is the method of handpicking a portion of text, most commonly for the purpose of copying/cutting/pasting.

In User Interface Design, text selection is the method of handpicking a portion of text that will be further acted upon by the user. The selection is done by the interaction devices provided by the user interface.

Text selection is most commonly associated with the user actions of copying, cutting, and pasting. In Graphical User Interface, text selection is performed by a mouse or touch represented as cursors.

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Disable defualt text selection in web application

When I am selecting bunch of rows by pressing shift key in gridview, the default text selection(dark blue) mixed with my custom row selection color. How to disable the default text selection in web application.
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Text selection disable

I am trying to make text unselectale in div, i am using following code. style="-webkit-touch-callout: none; -webkit-user-select: none; -khtml-user-select: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; …
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How can I programmatically get text selection in Adobe After Effects with ExtendScripts

I have object TextLayer with white text color string. Then I animate text color selection (second character changes color white -> blue). How can I get this selection and color programmatically?
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How to monitor double click (text selection) on OSX in browser or text editor

Novice programmer asking first question on stack-overflow. I am writing an app for mac osx that monitors for text selection ie when a user does a double click on some text. The text can come from a browser or text editor, etc. The goal is to…
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Preserving table selection in Word 2003 VBA macro

My goal is to write a VBA Macro for Word 2003, where the user selects part of a table (especially a column), and the macro maps input characters to specific output characters, e.g. any of a e i o u become V; some sequences like eh uw become V; one…
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App Inventor Listpicker, Select specific text

I need to get a specific section of text from the listpicker results. So far I can get the item I select to appear in an alert box. I need to set a specific part of that listpicker selection for mysql delete. example: 24 - 1234567 - DTV -…
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how to save text from webview into a String?

I'm trying to save the text selected in my app webView into a String. how is it even possible? As far as I've checked apple don't let you add options to their (copy, cut) pop up menu. I've seen some menu pop ups in github but they are only menus…
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DOM onselect failing to work properly

I'm working with a text area defined as below: I'm trying to detect when some text is selected by the user and the onselect seems perfect for this. It works perfectly on the w3schools example and I got it…
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Text selection issue with embedded JavaFX into SWT

I am having a problem with my JavaFX TextArea. I use the FXCanvas to embed an few JavaFX controls into an SWT composite. Everything works fine except for the TextArea which doesn't allow me to highlight text by dragging. Double click and "right…
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JQUERY: How to tag selected text using textbox as tooltip

I'm building a website where i have pages with lot of text. I need the ability to select text and than tag it with name and add it to list at the top of the page. the text can be very long so i'll have to use some tooltip for that. i want something…
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WebView text selection markers how to overlay view

In the Google Play Books app when I select a word I can see the dictionary defintion for it which I can then drag the dictionary view up and over the selected text including the markers. When I try and do a similar thing I am seeing the selected…
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Text selection style going to the edge of a webpage

I've been looking around but there doesn't seem to much help on this. Basically I've adjusted my text selection to a different colour, easy done. However, I was wondering how to code the selection to select to the edge of the page rather than just…
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Surrounding each word from user selected text with a DOM element

From a DOM fragment coming from the user selected text window.getSelection():

Hello world!

How do you do?

I'd like to surround a around each word, ie:

Hello
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Visual Basic element

I'm kind of new at visual basic. I just can't for the life of me figure out how to make this single element. a single line combo box with two scroll bars. For instance if I had the numbers 1-4 loaded into it, it would start displaying 1, I hit the…
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How do I find if an element is immediately surrounding a text selection range, and if so, what element it is?

I'm working on an rich text editor that can be embedded in a web page along the lines of Aloha. The current problem I'm running up against is when inserting or updating links around a user-created selection of text I need to know whether a link…
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