What is the best way to prevent highlighting of text when clicking on its containing div in javascript?

Question

I am building a menu in HTML/CSS/JS and I need a way to prevent the text in the menu from being highlighted when double-clicked on. I need a way to pass the id\'s of several

Answer 1

You could use this CSS to simply hide the selection color (not supported by IE):

#id::-moz-selection {
  background: transparent;
}

#id::selection {
  background: transparent;
}