Make Text in Link selectable with CSS
css, html, html-select, hyperlink
Solution
In Firefox, you can select parts of the hyperlinks by pressing the `Alt` key and then selecting as usual with the mouse. So one option is to implement something similar using `jQuery`: if the `Alt` key is pressed (or a key that you assign) and the mouse pointer is over the link, then disable the link. When the key is released then enable the link. Of course you would have to tell your users how to make the selection.
Problem
I´m working on a site, which collects famous Quotes. The Text of the quote is a link to do something else [...] But I also wants, that the user can select and copy the text of the quote. But in nearly every browser the user cannot easily select text in Links. Is it possible to override this in CSS and make it possible to the user to select the text?