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Disable text selection with the mouse
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Question:
How can I disable text selection by mouse clicking or dragging of a text block?Answer:
You could disable any mouse-down event with code as shown below (to be put in an onload event. The downside of this is that nothing will work anymore, not even clicks on links.Also know that a user still can click on the document and use 'Select All' from the Edit menu (or in Internet Explorer even use a shortcut Control+A), followed by 'Copy' from the menu.
There is simply no way to protect displayed content, you can only make it a bit more difficult.
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// Internet Explorer: if (document.all) document.onselectstart = function () { return false; }; // Netscape 4: if (document.layers) { document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN); document.onmousedown = function (evt) { return false; }; } // Netscape 6: document.onmousedown = function () { return false; }; | ||
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thanks
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how do i turn it back on?
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koszi
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You spelled harare wrong. Harare is how you spell it :)
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Check out the tool at
 http://www.enc.rypt..select.php also. It is an alternative method to using Javascript to disable selecting text on a web page.
The tool there inserts invisible characters into text which make it near impossible to copy and paste text. Javascript can easily be turned off on the browser, rendering any Javascript disabled. |
