jQWidgets jqxGrid enablebrowserselection Property

Last Updated : 29 Mar, 2023

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxGrid is used to illustrate a jQuery widget that shows data in tabular form. Moreover, it renders full support for connecting with data, as well as paging, grouping, sorting, filtering and editing.

The enablebrowserselection property is used to enable or disable the selection of text of the browser. It is of type Boolean and its by default value is false.

Syntax:

Set the enablebrowserselection property.

$('#Selector').jqxGrid({ enablebrowserselection: true});

Return the enablebrowserselection property.

var enablebrowserselection = $('#Selector')
        .jqxGrid('enablebrowserselection');

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdata.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js”></script>

The below example illustrates the jqxGrid enablebrowserselection property in jQWidgets.

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet"
          href="jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" 
          type="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdata.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxbuttons.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxscrollbar.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxmenu.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.js"> 
      </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxgrid.selection.js"> 
      </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color: green"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
  
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxGrid enablebrowserselection 
            property 
        </h3> 
        <br /> 
  
        <div id="jqxg"></div> 
  
        <div> 
            <input type="button" id="jqxBtn" 
                    style="margin-top: 25px"
                       value="Click here" /> 
        </div> 
  
        <div id="log"></div> 
    </center> 
  
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        $(document).ready(function () { 
            var d = new Array(); 
            var subjectNames = 
                ["C++", "Scala", "Java",  
                 "C", "R", "JavaScript"]; 
  
            var pageNumber = 
                ["7", "8", "12", "11", "10", "19"]; 
  
            for (var j = 0; j < 50; j++) { 
                var r = {}; 
                r["subjectnames"] = 
                    subjectNames[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * subjectNames.length)) 
                    ]; 
  
                r["pagenumber"] = 
                    pageNumber[(Math.floor( 
                        Math.random() * pageNumber.length)) 
                    ]; 
                d[j] = r; 
  
            } 
            var src = { 
                localdata: d, 
                datatype: "array", 
            }; 
            var data_Adapter = new $.jqx.dataAdapter(src); 
            $("#jqxg").jqxGrid({ 
                source: data_Adapter, 
                sortable: true, 
                theme: 'energyblue', 
                filterable: true, 
                enablebrowserselection: true, 
                height: "250px", 
                width: "250px", 
                columns: [ 
                    { 
                        text: "Subject Name", 
                        datafield: "subjectnames", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                    { 
                        text: "Page No.", 
                        datafield: "pagenumber", 
                        width: "120px", 
                    }, 
                ], 
            }); 
  
            $("#jqxBtn").jqxButton({ 
                width: "180px", 
                height: "30px", 
            }); 
            $("#jqxBtn").on("click", function () { 
                var ebs = $('#jqxg').jqxGrid('enablebrowserselection'); 
                $('#log').text("Text selection enabled: " + ebs); 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>