This works for preventing all selection on a widget.
addDomHandler(new MouseDownHandler()
{
@Override
public void onMouseDown(MouseDownEvent event)
{
event.preventDefault();
}
}, MouseDownEvent.getType());
On Sep 14, 3:53 am, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 9:29 pm, decitrig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm working on an application that responds to double clicks on text
> > labels, and I'd like to either disable double-click text selection or
> > clear it from within the event handler. I tried $doc.selection.clear()
> > in a native method, but apparently $doc.selection is "not an object" -
> > it may be that the selection isn't occurring until after the double-
> > click handler is getting called. I did try stopPropagation and
> > preventDefault, neither helped.
>
> > Any pointers?
>
> There's a CSS property that you can use to disable text selection:
> user-select.
> It's available in WebKit (-webkit-user-select) and Firefox (-moz-user-
> select). I can't tell for Opera (-o-user-select?).
> In IE, you'd have to listen to an onselectionstart event and cancel
> it.
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