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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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How did this webpage disable text selection?

Hi I found this webpage today: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/sister.asp I couldn't figure out how it disable text selection. It's neither the conventional CSS or javascript method. Do anyone know how it disable the text selection?
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Find selected DOM elements?

When a user selects multiple td elements across rows in my table I'd like a way to figure out what elements have been selected and then proceed to get the tr of all the selected table cells. How can I do this? I'm using jquery.
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Ubuntu+Unity: text selection event

Subject: I have Ubuntu with Unity. I select text in different tools, like PDF Reader, Libre Office and so on. Can I get this event object (selection) somehow? I want to do some processing on this event.
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Rangy v13alpha.804 lacks CssClassApplier module?

thanks for Rangy! however, after severe testing (aaargg!) i discovered that rangy.modules.CssClassApplier returns false in .804, but returns true in previous version .772 .. What happened? Am i missing something? -roelof
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Hide text selection markers in Android stock browser

I'm in a position where I really need to hide the text selection "markers" when editing an input field in the Android stock browser. They are in the way for other important information. It's a JSP-page. Is this technically possible? Just to avoid…
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How to jump to the other side of selected text?

I have selected a text with the cursor. Now I want to jump to the other side of the text, but how? If I made the selection with the mouse and moved the selection once with ⇧+ ←/→, I don't find a way to change the cursor position to the other side of…
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IE9 selectAllChildren on an out-of-view element

I am trying to replicate a service that is provided by Tynt.com that appends some text to a user's selection when copying. I understand that users don't particularly like this, but it is a client's request to append the URL and copyright notice…
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Can i show multiple option on selection of a word in web Browser control of windows phone 8?

How can i show multiple option on selection of a word in web Browser control of windows phone 8 ? I am showing images which is default behavior of web Browser control of windows phone 8 I want the following look after the selection in web browser…
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Disable Text Selection in IE

I am trying to disable text selection, and it works fine in all browsers but IE. I have added a bit of code to the css as well as to the index. It still is not disabling. I have added this to the index: $('#poet').disableSelection(); // deprecated…
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Saving the window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0) at server end

How can we save the current selection at server end. Because result is saved as the string when we return the result. I am using C# .net in the server end. The problem is that when i save the current selection it will return me the string. Then on…
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Disable partial text selection in phonegap web app (android)

I want to disable the text selection effect (the popup tool for copy/paste/select-all on Andorid) on some DOM elements of a phonegap web app. Mostly, I want to enable text selection in textarea and input. edit -- Not only text controls, but also div…
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i am not able to select text in chrome

try { Actions actions = new Actions(driver); actions.moveToElement(element, 10, 5).clickAndHold() .moveByOffset(30, 0).release().perform(); Thread.sleep(2000); …
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I can not select/highlight text in a div

So, I've developed this site, but you can't select some of the text, it isn't the biggest problem but I would like to know what is causing it. This is the site (http://quinnkeaveney.com/setoff) The text that you can't select is the large main text…
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Sharing a word in Android

I wanted to know if there is any feature in Android where I could select a word from a third party application and send or share that word to my application. I could store that word in my application for further processing.
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How to recreate "highlight" selection with Javascript mouse events and CSS?

I wish to recreate the ability to highlight text. Highlight the above sentence. You see that blue color that engulfs the selected text? The one letting you know that that is the text you have selected, down to the character; I want to recreate that…
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