selectOverlap

Determines whether the user is allowed to select periods of time that are occupied by events.

When the selectable option is activated, and false is given, the user will not be allowed to select periods of time that intersect with events on the calendar. If true is given (the default), the user will be able to freely select any period of time.

If a function is given, the function will be called once for every time the user’s selection intersects with an event. If the function returns true, the selection will be allowed. If false, the selection will not be allowed. Here is an example of allowing selections over background events but not allowing selections over any other types of events:

$('#calendar').fullCalendar({
  events: [ /* event data here */ ]
  selectOverlap: function(event) {
    return event.rendering === 'background';
  }
});

The selectOverlap setting does not differentiate between background events or normal events. It treats both types of events the same unless you write custom logic in your callback function (like the code above).

If selecting time slots in one of the agenda views, and there is an all-day event for that specific day, this will be considered an intersection, even though the events don’t appear to visually overlap because the all-day slot is separate from the time slots.