We recently dealt with the same problem with IE on the Fluid project.
We fixed it by trapping both the ondrag and onselectstart events.
Note: these events only need to be trapped in IE and they are not
jQuery events so you need to cast the object to a browser DOM object
before trapping.
Here is our code. Note that domNode is a jQuery object that was set up
in an earlier function and get(0) is what casts it to a browser DOM
object.
if (jQuery.browser.msie) {
domNode.get(0).ondrag = function () { return false; };
domNode.get(0).onselectstart = function () { return false; };
}
- Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley
On Feb 20, 5:23 pm, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. I got it to work with 2 preventDefaults (the one for IE and
> the one for the other browsers), but I've not tried IE6 yet, so I may
> yet need to have your tricks up my sleeve. Thanks. I'll get back here
> with a final listing of code once I'm sure I'm working on all the A-
> grade jQuery-supported browsers.
>
> On Feb 20, 12:07 pm, "Josh Nathanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I believe the one for IE is "stopPropagation()" or something like that.
>
> > Also, did you try putting "return false" after all the other code for your
> > mousemove? I seem to recall that helped me in a similar situation.
>
> > $("#actionSurface").mousemove(function(e){
> > ... save off current x and y ...
> > ... move shit around
> > return false; <--- add this
> > });
>
> > -- Josh
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "timothytoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:48 AM
> > Subject: [jQuery] Re: How to keep text from being highlighted when I'm
>
> > handling the mouse events
>
> > > Yeah, so surprise. Doesn't work on IE. Anyone have any ideas for that
> > > browser?
