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Reputation: 281

QWebView disable text selection on right-click

Right-clicking on any text on a webpage viewed with QWebView on Windows selects the word under the cursor. I want to disable this behaviour, but can't find any reference in the docs.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3187

Answers (2)

Code Spy
Code Spy

Reputation: 9964

We can use a JavaScript function to Disable select of Text on Multiple browsers as follow

<script type="text/javascript">

function disableSelection(target){
if (typeof target.onselectstart!="undefined") //For IE 
    target.onselectstart=function(){return false}
else if (typeof target.style.MozUserSelect!="undefined") //For Firefox
    target.style.MozUserSelect="none"
else //All other route (For Opera)
    target.onmousedown=function(){return false}
target.style.cursor = "default"
}
 </script>

Call to this function

<script type="text/javascript">
   disableSelection(document.body)
</script>

Upvotes: 1

sam-w
sam-w

Reputation: 7687

This preference looks to be deep into Webkit (the engine that powers QWebView and Google Chrome among many others). There is a Webkit bug that involves a bit of discussion around the desired behaviour on right-clicking some text, but this discussion (and subsequent changes) occurred after Webkit was branched to create QtWebkitRelease20 (the version released with Qt 4.7.x) - I think this is why the behaviour you want is visible in Chrome but not Qt. There is another upcoming branch, QtWebkitRelease22, which will be included as part of Qt 4.8 - I think the change you're after will be implemented in that release.

So your options as I see them are either:

Upvotes: 5

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