How to disable datatable selection

Question

1. Looking to disable this select functionality within datatables only.
2. Can do the ctrl+a as an example is already provided here

Answer 1

use user-select for the td and th tags

 td, th {
   user-select: none;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  -moz-user-select: -moz-none;
  -ms-user-select: none; 
}