jQuery .click() is triggering when selecting/highlighting text
That's because a click is a mousedown followed by a mouseup. My suggestion is to check getSelection inside the click handler. If it's set, then you selected something, else you just clicked.
$('#click').click(function() { var sel = getSelection().toString(); if(!sel){ alert("clicked"); }});
As I posted on comment, mosuedown + mouseup = click which is exactly what highlighting does. There is workaround for this.. see below,
var isClick = 0;$('#click').click(function() { if (isClick == 1) { alert("clicked"); }}).mousedown(function () { isClick = 1;}).mousemove(function () { isClick = 0;});
jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ym5JX/8/
$('#click').click( function(){ if ( getSelection() == "" ) { alert("clicked"); }});