- From: Christoph Päper via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:57:32 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Crissov has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts: == [css-ui] Limit `user-select` due to popular misuse == Despite the lax warnings against this in the [specification](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui-4/#content-selection) already, `user-select: none` is *widely* abused for a weak kind of copy-restriction. Many browsers, particularly on mobile devices, do not assist their users in circumventing this conveniently. Therefore, I believe CSS should step up and improve the overall user experience of the Web by restricting the applicability of the `user-select` property, or at least its `none` value. I have no concrete proposal for this, but I assume that one approach could be to only allow _widgets_ (as defined for the [`appearance` property](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-ui-4/#content-selection)) to be affected by `user-select`, or require a used value other than `appearance: none`. Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13838 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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