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Using CSS, it’s possible to prevent users from selecting text within an element using user-select: none. Now, it’s understandable why doing so might be considered “controversial”. I mean, should we be disabling standard user behaviors? Generally speaking, no, we …

A bonafide CSS trick from Will Boyd!

1. Force all the content of an element to be selected when clicked with user-select: all;
2. If you click a second time, let the user select just parts of the text as normal.
3. Second

I suspect it is not highly known that CSS can control how text is selected. You can do user-select: none; to prevent some text from being selected. That’s probably not terribly good UX in general, but perhaps you use some …

Have you ever seen (or put yourself) some text into a <textarea></textarea> or <input />, not because it was part of a form, but because it made the whole block of text easier to select. Inputs like that have …