PPS In short, assuming that the pseudo selector :active ONLY applies to the
initial mousedown "target" element
then shouldnt this be all that is necessary to limit text selection to
single table cells?
TD:active {-moz-user-select:text}
Am I correct in thinking that -moz-user-select is buggy?
"rvj" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> PS In the example above, the mouseup script is only for testing
> purposes.
>
> In reality what is needed is that the mousedown event would ALSO need to
> change the class of the previous element which has its class set
> to -moz-user-select:text back to -moz-user-select:-moz-none
>
> the point is that it seems to be getting very messy for a such a simple
> task !
>
> Is there an easier approach?
>
>
> "rvj" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>> thanks .. although I wasnt exactly sure what you meant by a manual flush
>>
>> have appended a different approach to the problem - by changing the class
>> of the element
>>
>> however the effect is the same - the text of the "target" element DOES
>> NOT become selectable when the mouse down event fires
>> and of course is made unselectable when the mouse up event fires ( i
>> assume addeventlistener is not mandatory).
>>
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <script>
>> function depressbutton(tag) { tag.setAttribute('class','editor') }}
>> function releasebutton(tag){ tag.setAttribute('class','reader')}
>> </script>
>>
>> <style>
>> table{-moz-user-select:-moz-none;}
>> .editor {-moz-user-select:text;}
>> .reader {-moz-user-select:-moz-none;}
>> </style>
>>
>> <body onmousedown="depressbutton(event.target)"
>> onmouseup="releasebutton(event.target)">
>> <table>
>>
>> <tr>
>> <td>a aaaaa aaaaaa aaa </td>
>> <td>bb bb bbb bbb</td>
>> </tr>
>>
>> <tr>
>> <td>c cccc cccccc ccc</td>
>> <td >dddd dddd ddd</td>
>> </tr>
>>
>> </table>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>>
>> "Boris Zbarsky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> On 10/13/10 12:22 AM, rvj wrote:
>>>> this.setAttribute('style','-moz-user-select:text')
>>>
>>> When is this running? I suggest putting it in a capturing listener (and
>>> perhaps manually triggering a style flush after that call....)
>>>
>>> -Boris
>>
>>
>
>
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