diff --git a/src/components/AnchorForCommentsOnly/BaseAnchorForCommentsOnly/index.js b/src/components/AnchorForCommentsOnly/BaseAnchorForCommentsOnly/index.js
index c673677b73f2..4683d9534e7a 100644
--- a/src/components/AnchorForCommentsOnly/BaseAnchorForCommentsOnly/index.js
+++ b/src/components/AnchorForCommentsOnly/BaseAnchorForCommentsOnly/index.js
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import * as ReportActionContextMenu from '../../../pages/home/report/ContextMenu
 import * as ContextMenuActions from '../../../pages/home/report/ContextMenu/ContextMenuActions';
 import AttachmentView from '../../AttachmentView';
 import fileDownload from '../../../libs/fileDownload';
+import canUseTouchScreen from '../../../libs/canUseTouchscreen';
+import styles from '../../../styles/styles';
 
 /*
  * This is a default anchor component for regular links.
@@ -38,6 +40,8 @@ class BaseAnchorForCommentsOnly extends React.Component {
     render() {
         let linkRef;
         const rest = _.omit(this.props, _.keys(propTypes));
+        const defaultTextStyle = canUseTouchScreen() || this.props.isSmallScreenWidth ? {} : styles.userSelectText;
+
         return (
             this.props.isAttachment
                 ? (
@@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ class BaseAnchorForCommentsOnly extends React.Component {
                     >
                         <Text
                             ref={el => linkRef = el}
-                            style={StyleSheet.flatten(this.props.style)}
+                            style={StyleSheet.flatten([this.props.style, defaultTextStyle])}
                             accessibilityRole="link"
                             href={this.props.href}
                             hrefAttrs={{
diff --git a/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js b/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js
index 37a9f693cf2f..a7e4c910f938 100755
--- a/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js
+++ b/src/components/HTMLEngineProvider/BaseHTMLEngineProvider.js
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ const customHTMLElementModels = {
     }),
 };
 
-const defaultViewProps = {style: {alignItems: 'flex-start'}};
+const defaultViewProps = {style: [styles.alignItemsStart, styles.userSelectText]};
 
 // We are using the explicit composite architecture for performance gains.
 // Configuration for RenderHTML is handled in a top-level component providing
diff --git a/src/styles/styles.js b/src/styles/styles.js
index 730a98495aee..ed1154e998b3 100644
--- a/src/styles/styles.js
+++ b/src/styles/styles.js
@@ -2491,6 +2491,10 @@ const styles = {
     closeAccountMessageInput: {
         height: 153,
     },
+
+    userSelectText: {
+        userSelect: 'text',
+    },
 };
 
 export default styles;