Quick way to NOT have selectables "selected" on pointer click?

Using the Unity UI system, if you click on a selectable (like a button etc.) then you trigger it's effect, but also the button becomes selected afterwards. Selected as in highlighted for keyboard/controller-based navigation. This annoys me to no end and I'm currently looking at the UI source to find a way to disable it.

Since the code is a bit fiddly, with the events etc I thought I'd ask and see if anyone has managed to solve this elegantly.

 

i used this for disabling mouse clicks on ui, if that's what you want to do:
http://answers.unity.com/answers/1197642/view.html

 

Thanks, but that's now quite what I was going for. However I had also asked this question on Reddit and someone replied:

If you set NAVIGATION to none, then the buttons do not take focus.