Hi guys,
as the subject says: is tehere anyway to disable the selection of a text element?

Here I have a simple circle with a number within: if u click 2 times the browser select the number to let you copy it, but I need to prevent this selection.

It's totally not my level but can't you just convert the number to path? The same thing you do to ensure your text in SVG will display same on different computers with different fonts installed.

very simple, put a layer on top of the text layer and set its transparency to 0

Welcome to InkscapeForum, rubenred!

I don't think putting a transparent layer on top of it is going to help. You'll still select the text. And I should say that I'm talking about on the canvas. katun89 is using code, for one thing, and it sounds like on a webpage for another. So I'm completely at a loss to offer help. But I do know, that whether by code or by gui, a transparent layer won't help, either on the canvas, or by the time it gets to a webpage.

I've looked at your file, and I don't even see a 2nd layer, much less a transparent one. It's just some text, and when I double-click, it's selected with the Text tool. Oh ok, I see that you've put a transparent rectangle over the text. But that does not prevent the selection, at least on the canvas. Even though the op is using it on a webpage (it sounds like), I think they'll have the same problem.

Now, if you set the same rectangle (or whatever) above it, but set the opacity to 0.01, THAT might work. On the canvas, you would actually select the rectangle. With code and/or webpage, I have no idea what would happen, or how to do it.

open the svg file on IE or Firefox with SVG Viewer plugin installed. you will not be able to select the text