Non-selectable text

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:35:53 +0200, michaelp <michaelp (AT) hio (DOT) no> wrote:

Hello!

I am teaching programming, and display code snippets with line numbers
for easy reference.

If possible, I would like to make these line numbers non-sselectable, so
that if students copy my code from the browser, they do not need to
manually strip the line numbers to make the code work.

Does css have a style to this effect?

There's no CSS style to do this -- as others have noted.

But how about this: I assume your students have browsers that can save HTML
files as plain text. Then if you use an ordered list to generate the line
numbers, they can just save as text and the numbers won't appear.

Christopher P. Winter wrote:

But how about this: I assume your students have browsers that can save HTML
files as plain text. Then if you use an ordered list to generate the line
numbers, they can just save as text and the numbers won't appear.

Are you sure? Seems to me that when you save as text,
many browsers attempt to make the text resemble what
was rendered.

--
Wes Groleau

"There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over."
-- Larry Wall

michaelp wrote:

I am teaching programming, and display code snippets with line numbers
for easy reference.

What's a "line number" ?

Is that like FORTRAN?

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 01:55:16 GMT, Wes Groleau <groleau+news (AT) freeshell (DOT) org>
wrote:

Christopher P. Winter wrote:
But how about this: I assume your students have browsers that can save HTML
files as plain text. Then if you use an ordered list to generate the line
numbers, they can just save as text and the numbers won't appear.

Are you sure? Seems to me that when you save as text,
many browsers attempt to make the text resemble what
was rendered.

Before posting, I tried it in IE6, and it did strip out the numbers.