Disable the text selection highlighting in React
In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to disable the text selection highlighting from a webpage in React.
Consider, that we have the following text in our React app:
import React from "react";
function App {
return (
<div>
<p>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing
and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the
industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.
</p>
</div>
);
}
export default App;Normally, if we double click on some text in the browser it will be selected/highlighted by default to prevent that behavior follow the below tutorial.
To disable the text selection highlighting in React, we can set the css property user-select to a value “none”.
Here is an example:
import React from "react";
function App {
return (
<div>
<p className="disable-text-selection">
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing
and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the
industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s.
</p>
</div>
);
}
export default App;.disable-text-selection{
-moz-user-select:none; /* firefox */
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Safari */
-ms-user-select: none; /* IE*/
user-select: none; /* Standard syntax */
}In the example above, we have added the browser prefixes for the user-select property, so it works the same in all browsers.
The user-select css property controls the behavior of a text selection for the HTML elements.
By setting a user-select property with the value none, we can disable the text selection on a webpage.
In case, if you want to disable the text selection for an entire webpage instead of a particular element, you can add the below CSS properties to your body tag.
body {
-moz-user-select:none; /* firefox */
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Safari */
-ms-user-select: none; /* IE */
user-select: none; /* Standard syntax */
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