In order to disable text selection in a WebView we can use following approaches: CSS * { user-select: none; -moz-user-select: -moz-none; -khtml-user-select: none; -webkit-user-select: none; } This approach will not work on all the versions of Android as the support was not there till late. Handling LongClick public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); WebView webView = (WebView) this.findViewById(R.id.webView1); webView.loadData("<html><head><style>head><body>You scored <b>192</b> points.</body></html>", "text/html", null); webView.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() { public boolean onL...