Disable "hold press" to zoom on mobile devices

Question

I'm experiencing some issues due to behaviour of some phone browsers (I'm on iOS) where when you hold finger in one place for a while it zooms in showing magnifying glass. Is it possible to get rid of this?

Answer 1

The purpose of this is to allow users to select text on a page. You can add -webkit-user-select: none to the css of whatever element you want the magnifying glass to not appear on, but this will also remove the ability to select text.