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While the other guys were absolutely bang on referring you to the quirksmode reference, that won't fix the problem you are having, and essentially you need to implement a variation of Kris's answer.

In my own implementation, I found that preventing default behaviour in the mousedown event was all that was required to stop that pesky text selection cursor:

function handleMouseDown(evt) {

evt.preventDefault();

evt.stopPropagation();

// you can change the cursor if you want

// just remember to handle the mouse up and put it back :)

evt.target.style.cursor = 'move';

// rest of code goes here

}

document.addEventListener('mousedown', handleMouseDown, false);

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Damon.