> Is there a way to disable text selection? > - I want to use events, so 'pointer-events' cannot set to none > - I need the default mouse cursor over text elements
Yes, probably there are more than one way to accomplish this. For example, I made a sample (available below) where text selection is disabled by overlaying text elements with invisible rectangles, which catch the pointer events and therefore disable the feature, while allowing the events to propagate to the SVG document root (uncomment the 'alert' to verify). Nevertheless I guess you should ask yourself if you really want to do that: text selection is seen as a good thing, although I admit text selection is currently faulty in most implementations, mixing up pointer events, catching events when not expected, etc.. I think disabling the feature can be a smart way to temporarily overcome these limitations while implementations don't catch up with developer/user needs. References: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#TextSelection (although it's referred that «A text selection operation starts [...] no links or events have been assigned to the 'text' [element]», any of the tested implementations seem to respect this) http://osdir.com/ml/web.svg/2004-11/msg00053.html (somehow old as the SVG 1.2 specification was redesigned and the link referred doesn't work, but the concept is there and will probably be in the standard some day) I provide a sample test describing the proposed behavior. Note that it works in Batik 100% but the dynamic text bounding box is unstable in ASV6 beta 1 (sometimes shows it, sometimes not - weirdly - that's why I didn't made the rectangle completely invisible in this case). Also, Renesis (and other SVG implementations) don't implement the bounding box feature (and it crashes eSVG) so use with care. If using the Yahoo! Groups Web interface to view this, it shows much better if fixed width font is used (right menu "Show Message Option", "Use Variable Width Font"): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <svg xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; contentScriptType="text/ecmascript" contentStyleType="text/css" version="1.2" baseProfile="tiny" width="800" height="600" viewBox="0 0 800 600" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" onload="init(evt)" onmouseup="handler(evt)"> <title>Text selection test</title> <script type="text/ecmascript"> <![CDATA[ var svgNS = "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";; var init = function(evt){ //fetch the text element var textEle = document.getElementById("dynamic-text"); //compute its bouding box var theBB = textEle.getBBox(); //create an invisible rectangle var bbox = document.createElementNS(svgNS, "rect"); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "x", theBB.x); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "y", theBB.y); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "width", theBB.width); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "height", theBB.height); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "fill", "black"); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "fill-opacity", "0.1"); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "stroke", "none"); bbox.setAttributeNS(null, "stroke-width", "0"); //insert into the document document.documentElement.appendChild(bbox); } var handler = function(evt){ //uncomment to verify event propagation //alert("mouseup"); } var nullHandler = function(evt){ } ]]> </script> <text x="50" y="100" font-size="50">usual text pointer</text> <text x="50" y="200" font-size="50" style="cursor:default">default pointer</text> <!-- standard way to do it (although apparently I doesn't work) --> <text x="50" y="300" font-size="50" onclick="nullHandler(evt)">standard unselectable text</text> <text x="50" y="400" font-size="50">static unselectable text</text> <!-- an invisible rectangle covers text, disabling selection --> <rect x="50" y="350" width="550" height="50" fill="white" fill-opacity="0" stroke="none" stroke-width="0" /> <text x="50" y="500" font-size="50" id="dynamic-text">dynamic unselectable text</text> </svg> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
