Interaction utilities

Text selection #

You can change the way in which the content is selected when the user interacts with it.

<!-- User select all -->
<div class="user-select-all">
  This text will be entirely selected when clicked
</div>

<!-- User select auto -->
<div class="user-select-auto">
  This text has the default browser select behavior
</div>

<!-- User select none -->
<div class="user-select-none">
  This text will not be selectable when clicked
</div>

Pointer events #

You can also use the .pe-none and .pe-auto classes to prevent or add element interactions, specifically, interactions with a pointer (mouse, stylus, touch).

<!-- Pointer events none -->
<div>
  <a href="#" class="pe-none" tabindex="-1" aria-disabled="true">This link</a> can not be clicked (disabled)
</div>

<!-- Pointer events auto -->
<div>
  <a href="#" class="pe-auto">This link</a> can be clicked (browser default)
</div>

As stated above, the .pe-none class (and the pointer-events CSS property it sets) only prevents interactions with a pointer (mouse, stylus, touch). Links and controls with .pe-none are, by default, still focusable and actionable for keyboard users. To ensure that they are completely neutralized even for keyboard users, you may need to add further attributes such as tabindex="-1" (to prevent them from receiving keyboard focus) and aria-disabled="true" (to convey the fact that they are effectively disabled to assistive technologies), and possibly use JavaScript to completely prevent them from being actionable.

If possible, the simpler solution is:

• For form controls, add the disabled HTML attribute.
• For links, remove the href attribute, making it a non-interactive anchor or placeholder link.