Can I disable right click on my web page without using JavaScript? I ask this because most browsers allow user to disable JavaScript.
If not, how do I use JavaScript to disable right click?
30 Answers
You can do that with JavaScript by adding an event listener for the "contextmenu" event and calling the preventDefault() method:
document.addEventListener('contextmenu', event => event.preventDefault());
That being said: DON'T DO IT.
Why? Because it achieves nothing other than annoying users. Also many browsers have a security option to disallow disabling of the right click (context) menu anyway.
Not sure why you'd want to. If it's out of some misplaced belief that you can protect your source code or images that way, think again: you can't.
DON'T
Just, don't.
No matter what you do, you can't prevent users from having full access to every bit of data on your website. Any Javascript you code can be rendered moot by simply turning off Javascript on the browser (or using a plugin like NoScript). Additionally, there's no way to disable the ability of any user to simply "view source" or "view page info" (or use wget) for your site.
It's not worth the effort. It won't actually work. It will make your site actively hostile to users. They will notice this and stop visiting. There is no benefit to doing this, only wasted effort and lost traffic.
Don't.
Update: It seems this little topic has proven quite controversial over time. Even so, I stand by this answer to this question. Sometimes the correct answer is advice instead of a literal response.
People who stumble on this question in hopes of finding out how to create custom context menus should look elsewhere, such as these questions:
- Making custom right-click context menus for my web-app, which relies on jQuery
- How to add a custom right-click menu to a webpage, which uses pure javascript/html
First, you cannot achieve this without using a client side capability. This is where the javascript runs.
Secondly, if you are trying to control what an end user can consume from your site, then you need to rethink how you display that information. An image has a public url that can be fetched via HTTP without the need for a browser.
Authentication can control who has access to what resources.
Embedded watermarking in images can prove that the image was from a specific person/company.
At the end of the day, resource management is really user/guest managment.
The first rule of the Internet, if you dont want it taken, dont make it public!
The second rule of the Internet, if you dont want it taken, dont put it on the Internet!
If your aim is to prevent people being able to download your images, as most people have said, disabling right click is pretty much ineffective.
Assuming you are trying to protect images the alternative methods are -
Using a flash player, users can't download them as such, but they could easily do a screen capture.
If you want to be more akward, make the image the background of a div, containing a transparent image, à la -
<div style="background-image: url(YourImage.jpg);">
<img src="transparent.gif"/>
</div>
will be enough to deter the casual theft of your images (see below for a sample), but as with all these techniques, is trivial to defeat with a basic understanding of html.
You cannot accomplish what you're asking without using Javascript. Any other technology you may choose to use can only help to compose the web page on the server side to be sent to the browser.
There simply is no good solution, and there is no solution period without Javascript.
If you just want to disable right click for saving images on the web page, go with this CSS solution:
your-img-tag {
pointer-events: none;
}
Before Implemented On Same Image:
After Implemented On Same Image:
Tested working in both Chrome and Firefox.
Simple Way:
<body oncontextmenu="return false" onselectstart="return false" ondragstart="return false">
I had used this code to disable right click in any web page, Its working fine. You can use this code
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery(function() {
jQuery(this).bind("contextmenu", function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
alert('Right click disable in this site!!')
});
});
});<html>
<head>
<title>Right click disable in web page</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
You write your own code
</body>
</html>Of course, as per all other comments here, this simply doesn't work.
I did once construct a simple java applet for a client which forced any capture of of an image to be done via screen capture and you might like to consider a similar technique. It worked, within the limitations, but I still think it was a waste of time.
Try This
<script language=JavaScript>
//Disable right mouse click Script
var message="Function Disabled!";
function clickIE4(){
if (event.button==2){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
function clickNS4(e){
if (document.layers||document.getElementById&&!document.all){
if (e.which==2||e.which==3){
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers){
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
document.onmousedown=clickNS4;
}
else if (document.all&&!document.getElementById){
document.onmousedown=clickIE4;
}
document.oncontextmenu=new Function("alert(message);return false")
</script>
Disabling right click on your web page is simple. There are just a few lines of JavaScript code that will do this job. Below is the JavaScript code:
$("html").on("contextmenu",function(e){
return false;
});
In the above code, I have selected the tag. After you add just that three lines of code, it will disable right click on your web page.
Source: Disable right click, copy, cut on web page using jQuery
Try this code for disabling inspect element option
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
function disableSelection(e) {
if (typeof e.onselectstart != "undefined") e.onselectstart = function() {
return false
};
else if (typeof e.style.MozUserSelect != "undefined") e.style.MozUserSelect = "none";
else e.onmousedown = function() {
return false
};
e.style.cursor = "default"
}
window.onload = function() {
disableSelection(document.body)
};
window.addEventListener("keydown", function(e) {
if (e.ctrlKey && (e.which == 65 || e.which == 66 || e.which == 67 || e.which == 70 || e.which == 73 || e.which == 80 || e.which == 83 || e.which == 85 || e.which == 86)) {
e.preventDefault()
}
});
document.keypress = function(e) {
if (e.ctrlKey && (e.which == 65 || e.which == 66 || e.which == 70 || e.which == 67 || e.which == 73 || e.which == 80 || e.which == 83 || e.which == 85 || e.which == 86)) {}
return false
};
document.onkeydown = function(e) {
e = e || window.event;
if (e.keyCode == 123 || e.keyCode == 18) {
return false
}
};
document.oncontextmenu = function(e) {
var t = e || window.event;
var n = t.target || t.srcElement;
if (n.nodeName != "A") return false
};
document.ondragstart = function() {
return false
};
});
There are three most popular following ways of disabling a right mouse click on your webpage.
#1 Using HTML Body Tag
<body oncontextmenu="return false;">
#2 Using CSS
body {
-webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome all / Safari all */
-moz-user-select: none; /* Firefox all */
-ms-user-select: none; /* IE 10+ */
-o-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}
#3 Using JavaScript
document.addEventListener('contextmenu', e => e.preventDefault());
A few things to consider:
Browser Plugins like "enable right click" in the chrome store exist for a reason, and you wont be able to get around them. There is LITERALLY NOTHING you can do to stop people from downloading your content as they literally have to download it to even see it in their browser anyway; People try but its always out there.
In general, if content shouldn't be public, don't put it online.
Also, not being able to right click is an accessibility issue and amounts to unlawful discrimination against the blind or disabled or elderly in many cases. Check you local laws, but in the USA its actively against the law in the form of the Federal ADA as the blind or the elderly who may have vision issues are a legally protected class.
So instead of doing this and wasting a lot of time and effort, don't even bother trying to do this. It could just get your company sued or have them fail a compliance audit.
Yes, you can disable it using HTML and Javascript.
Just add oncontextmenu="return false;" on your body or element.
It is very simple and just uses valid HTML and Javascript, no jQuery.
I'd like to add a note (for chrome 97) not sure if this is a bug related to chrome or my environment.
Right clicking on a specific element of my application opens a page in a new tab, using mousedown and oncontextmenu="return false" I was still having the contextual menu appearing, even on the new opened page (Only the menus of installed chrome extensions appear on that contextual menu, I think this "bug" should get fixed in future version of the browsers).
But in the meantime I fixed it using this simple hack
function onMouseDown () {
setTimeout(() => window.open('the link', '_blank'), 100)
}
I am just deferring the tab opening. I think this bug occurs because the right click is caught by the new opened page, not from the original page of my application that tries to open the tab.
Hope it saves you from headaches.
Use this function to disable right click.You can disable left click and tap also by checking 1 and 0 corresponding
document.onmousedown = rightclickD;
function rightclickD(e)
{
e = e||event;
console.log(e);
if (e.button == 2) {
//alert('Right click disabled!!!');
return false; }
}
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