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CSS

Posted by Lisa Crowley
Lisa Crowley
4,793 Points

Line items in a list highlight to the height of the UL on click - is this built into the browser?

I'm working together with a team on making a dropdown navigation. I'm not as familiar with the Javascript, but it looks kind of like this:

<ul>
    <li onclick="toggleMenu(this);">
        Main Nav Link
        <div>
            <ul>
                <li>Option 1</li>
                <li>Option 2</li>
                <li>Option 3</li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </li>
</ul>

However, when you click twice on the Main Nav Link line item, it highlights/selects the entire line item up to the height of the containing UL.

You can see what I mean here:

Is this from the user agent stylesheet?

1 Answer

Erwin Meesters
Erwin Meesters
15,088 Points

Yes, it's a browser thing. You can prevent this (in some browsers) by putting these rules in your css:

* {
  -webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome/Safari */        
  -moz-user-select: none; /* Firefox */
  -ms-user-select: none; /* IE10+ */
}

The asterisk targets all elements, you don't have to do this, you can target any element. There are different solutions, something like:

* {
  -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent;
}
Lisa Crowley
Lisa Crowley
4,793 Points

The first solution you proposed was perfect! I targeted my nav specifically and it did exactly the trick. Thank you so much!