[removed] Disable text selection via doubleclick

Question

When double-clicking on a html page most browsers select the word you double-click on (or the paragraph you triple-click on). Is there a way to get rid of this behavior?

Answer 1

Just to throw this out there, but here's the code I slap into my pages where I expect users to be clicking rapidly. However, this will also disable standard click-n-drag text selection.

document.body.onselectstart = function() {
    return false;
}
document.body.style.MozUserSelect = "none";
if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("opera") != -1) {
    document.body.onmousedown = function() {
        return false;
    }
}

Seems to work well for me.