CSS GUIDE -MOZ-USER-SELECT

Summary

-moz-user-select is a Mozilla property extension to CSS that is used to determine whether or not an element may have its content selected.

Media: interactive

Possible uses include: prohibiting the selection of content in attempts to reduce blatant copying.

Syntax

<!-- TARGET_ELEMENT{-moz-user-modify: inherit;}
TARGET_ELEMENT{-moz-user-modify: read-only;}
TARGET_ELEMENT{-moz-user-modify: read-write;}
TARGET_ELEMENT{-moz-user-modify: write-only;} -->

Legal Values

Value	Description
inherit	Inherit the value from the parent element.
none	None of the content may be selected.
text	Only the text within the element may be selected.
element	A single element may be selected (from many).
elements	Multiple elements may be selected.
all	The contents must either be selected in entirety or none at all.
toggle
tri-state
-moz-all

Notes

This property is similar to the user-select property of CSS3.

When the 'none' value was applied to a heading element the content could still be selected.

Specification Conformance

Doesn't conform to CSS standards; A Mozilla CSS Extension.

Browser Compatibility

Netscape 6+
Mozilla 0.6+
Firefox 1.0+

See Also

-moz-user-focus
-moz-user-input
-moz-user-modify

References

Mozilla Developer Centre - CSS Reference - Mozilla Extensions (developer.mozilla.org)
Netscape CSS Extensions (blooberry.com)
User Interface for CSS3 (w3.org)