no right click

[Hephzibite]

Hey, I am just new at everything and I what I am looking for is blocking people from right clicking on my page, or printing my page or dragging pictures from my page. I am using HTML code. What are my options?

[Phip]

Well, first of all this is ASP not html or javascript which is needed for this.

Second of all, you CANNOT do that. it is immpossible period

you can disable right click but not print, save as, etc.

Go here for right click disable javascript code (http://summerholiday.org/freecode/Disable_Right_Click.html)

hope this helps :thumbsup:

[whammy]

Since you posted in the wrong forum, I am going to send your post to the correct place so you can get some help...

But I'll tell you right now that "no right click" is useless... and if you continue web development for a while, you'll see why. :D

[ionsurge]

Now that is true...

[Roy Sinclair]

There are all kinds of tricks you can use to attempt to protect your content and the bottom line right now is that they all fall short in some way or another. The web wasn't designed to protect things, it was designed to disemminate information and that basic design makes all the various protection schemes pretty well useless.

It's recommended that you copyright your original works and use that as the basis for your protection, the only good recourse you have is the legal system and since the web is international even that can be very hard or expensive to use. The question though is just how valuable is your site's content, it's been noted that most of the sites using such protection tricks don't actually have anything worth protecting.

[whammy]

I'll not only vouch for that... I'll add this:

A good number of people that have requested "no right click" scripts, and other "copy protection" scripts were using scripts taken from dynamicdrive.com and wsabstract.com... and then putting their OWN credits on them!!! Which is deplorable.

I am not accusing you of anything though. It's a common habit of new web developers to think they came up with something really great, when in fact it's not only been done hundreds of times, it's been done better (and the better script is free to download... as a matter of fact, you'll find hundreds of script like that on this forum alone!) :D

So the no right click protection idea goes completely out the window once you've acquired enough experience. You then realize that it's just fine if someone copies your code... and I even encourage it...

As long as you don't plagiarize, and claim that someone else's code is yours, you're ok.

It all boils down to this - you can't protect client-side scripts... at all... if you want to do something proprietary, you'll need to learn a server-side scripting language and develop scripts for that language.

But it's likely that someone has already done that as well or better, too. :D

:D

[ionsurge]

Yeah, and chances are that someone would be ten years younger than you, who can create things that you can only but dream of.

:(

It makes you feel old.

[whammy]

I used to feel that way, too, ionsurge - since I'm now 31 and these 14 and 16 year old kids in the forum were blowing me away withtheir knowledge (and some of them still do!).

But I am catching up! You wouldn't believe how much you can learn if you actually try. I'm learning PHP and I have decided I'm also going to learn XML's ins and outs (since I really, really like XHTML).

[brothercake]

Originally posted by whammy
But it's likely that someone has already done that as well or better, too.

But never forget that within each of us lives a unique creativity - the potential to create something never done before.

[whammy]

I won't! That's why I continue to write my own scripts. :D

[ionsurge]

:: bows down to whammy's genius ::

It is strange isn't it? I am 20...

[whackaxe]

how many no right click posts we had yet? must be at least 5 or 6?

[ionsurge]

Most of these people never bother to search the forums, or look at the actual titles, seeing as there is a thread that is sticky simply deicated to protecting source code...