How can I disable highlighting in html or JS?

Question

I need to disable the highlighting of selected text on my web app. I have a good reason for doing this and know that this is generally a bad idea. But I need to do it anyway

Answer 1

If your ultimate goal is to make copy and paste of text more difficult, Javascript and CSS are not the right technology because you cannot disable the browser's view-source function.

Some other ideas (none of them ideal):

• a java applet (you control both display and retrieval of text)
• same in a different browser plugin (flash, silverlight, etc.)
• server-side created images (poor performance)