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Feb 11.2006

In the latest newsletter, there’s a script to disable text placed between “div” and “/div” marked as “content” for the purposes of the script.

This works very well if you actually just try to copy the text but, even if you make the whole page the “content”, if you simply right click in the page and “select all” you can grab the text anyway to copy to wordpad or something.

Is there a script which can diable that function too? Or maybe just the right click?

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@phpnoviceFeb 12.2006 — You can try this:
<i>
</i>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
&lt;!--//
if (window.Event)
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
function noRightClick(evt) {
if (window.Event) {
if (evt.which==2 || evt.which==3) {
return false;
}
}
return true;
}
document.onmousedown = noRightClick;
function noContextMenu(evt) {
if (window.Event) {
evt.cancelBubble = true;
evt.returnValue = false;
} else {
event.cancelBubble = true;
event.returnValue = false;
}
return false;
}
document.oncontextmenu = noContextMenu;
//--&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;
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@JSchofauthorFeb 12.2006 — Many thanks - I'll give that a go. Probably still can't disable "select all" in browser and then Ctrl_C to copy but anything to slow them down or put off the casual copier!!
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@KravvitzFeb 12.2006 — Things like that only annoy people. Any one with the right skills or who is determined will be able to copy content from your site. The only way to protect your content is to not put it on the WWW in the first place.
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@felgallFeb 12.2006 — Once they view the source of your web page they can copy all of the content regardless of what "proterction" you might have built into the page.
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@JSchofauthorFeb 12.2006 — yes - I know all that guys. Been there before. Just niggles me so I'll niggle them back!
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