prevent highlighting of text in a div?

[sde]

is there anyway to prevent text from highlighting in a div?

[teknomage1]

How are you highliting it? If you have an onhover attribute highliting your div, you can wrap the the text in a p tage and set a more specific behavior for the text via 'div > p'

[sde]

it's just a bunch of div's on top of eachother.

<div>div 1</div>
<div>div 2</div>
<div>div 3</div>

i create a drag layer on mouse down and it creates a new layer on a higher z-index. when i start dragging div 1 down and to the right, it highlights the text in div 2 and div 3.

overflow: hidden;

this fixes it in firefox, but it still looks weird in IE.

[teknomage1]

Oh, wierd. I don't generally deal with highly mobile css elements... have you considered a click-n-stick(at least for IE) interface versus drag and drop?