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I have an element with text in it and in between text there are span elements. When I highlight the parts of the text with the span elements in it, it shows those elements text. I looked for a solution and found the following css values, these should disable highlight and by the look of it, it does, but in code the values are still there.

-webkit-touch-callout: none; /* iOS Safari */
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Safari */
 -khtml-user-select: none; /* Konqueror HTML */
   -moz-user-select: none; /* Old versions of Firefox */
    -ms-user-select: none; /* Internet Explorer/Edge */
     -o-user-select: none;
        user-select: none; /* Non-prefixed version, currently
                              supported by Chrome, Edge, Opera and Firefox */

In code I am getting the highlighted text like this window.getSelection().toString().

I cant find any other way to disable highlighting and dont understand why these css values dont work. What am I doing wrong? What other ways are there to disable highlight?

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  • You can try using canvas to render the text. Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 10:33
  • are you using this on many elements ?? Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 10:33
  • check this stackoverflow.com/questions/1224433/… Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 10:34
  • @AdamAzad Could you write an answer? Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 11:01
  • @AlaaKaddour yes, that seems to answer for firefox. I need this on all browsers Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 11:01
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