Clicking inside canvas element selects text

Question

I have a canvas element in my HTML document. When I click inside of the canvas multiple times, it selects part of my

element\'s text, which is before

Answer 1

If you want to use the mousedown event to do other things, you can prevent only text selection more specifically by setting the onselectstart event to return false.

//give your canvas an id, I used 'can'    
var canvas = document.getElementById('can');
canvas.onselectstart = function () { return false; }