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:

• Give it ("it" being your text) a onclick event
• First click sets a variable to the current time
• Second click checks to see if that variable is x time from the current, current time (so a double click over, for example, 500ms, doesn't register as a double click)
• If it is a double click, do something to the page like adding hidden HTML, doing document.focus(). You'll have to experiment with these as some might cause unwanted scrolling.