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Created November 18, 2019 15:26
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Bookmarklet: Restore text selection and context menu
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restore-selection.js
javascript:function restoreSelection(){console.log('Attempting to restore text selection!');var style=document.createElement("style");style.type="text/css",style.innerHTML="*, p, div { -moz-user-select: text !important;-webkit-user-select:text !important;user-select: text !important; }",document.head.appendChild(style),document.querySelectorAll("*").forEach(el=>{el.onselectstart=el.ondragstart=el.ondrag=el.oncontextmenu=el.onmousedown=el.onmouseup=function(){return!0}})}restoreSelection();
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I designed this to get around Xuite's annoying habit of disabling text selection with CSS and JS. Copy and paste into the URL of a bookmark.

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