title: How to get the effect of 'user-select: text' in css3?
body: <p>The validator at <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/" rel="nofollow">http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/</a> says that the value 'text' for 'user-select' is not valid.  For a css rule with this code in it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   user-select: text;
  </code></pre>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>the validator says:</p>
  
  <p>text is not a user-select value : text text</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Presumably this is because of this behavior, specified at (the outdated) <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-css3-userint-20000216#user-select" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-css3-userint-20000216#user-select</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>This property is not inherited, but it does affect children in the
    same way that display: none does, it limits it. That is if an element
    is user-select: none, it doesn't matter what the user-select value is
    of its children, the element's contents or it's childrens contents
    cannot be selected.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Also, I only see the attribute value 'text' specified in that out-of-date css3 doc from w3.org:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-css3-userint-20000216#user-select" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-css3-userint-20000216#user-select</a></p>
  
  <p>and not in the latest one: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-ui/</a></p>
  
  <p>Additionally, searching 'whatwg.org' yields nothing.</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas if 'user-select: text' is valid css3, and if not, what should be used instead?  </p>
  
  <p>This would be used, for example, when overriding 'user-select: none' rules applied to containers of text and ancestor containers.</p>