How to Disable the CTRL+P using javascript or Jquery?

Question

Here I tried to disable the Ctrl+P but it doesn\'t get me alert and also it shows the print options

jQuery(document).bind(\"keyup keydo         


        

Answer 1

This Actually worked for me in chrome. I was pretty suprised.

jQuery(document).bind("keyup keydown", function(e){
    if(e.ctrlKey && e.keyCode == 80){
         Print(); e.preventDefault();
    }
});

Where Print is a function I wrote that calls window.print(); It also works as a pure blocker if you disable Print();

As noted here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20121038/2102085

window.print() will pause so you can add an onPrintFinish or onPrintBegin like this

function Print(){
    onPrintBegin
    window.print();
    onPrintFinish(); 
}

(Again this is just chrome, but Peter has a downvoted solution below that claims the keycodes are different for ff and ie)

Answer 2

Try this

    //hide body on Ctrl + P
    jQuery(document).bind("keyup keydown", function (e) {
        if (e.ctrlKey && e.keyCode == 80) {
            $("body").hide();
            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 3

Your code works in the jsfiddle example? What browser are you using? Itested it with the latest chrome and it worked fine.

You can also add:

e.preventDefault();

Answer 4

If you want to disable printing of your webpage you're wasting your time: it can't be done. Even if you work out how to capture CTRL-P users can still use the browsers menu bar to find the print command, or they can take a screen shot of the browser.

Stop trying to control the user, put your energy into making your site / app more useful, not less useful.

edit 2016: in the 3 years this has been up it has gathered 3 downvotes. I'm still not deleting it. I think it is important to tell fellow developers when they are given impossible tasks, or tasks that make no sense.

edit 2018: still think it's important that people that have this question read this answer.

Answer 5

had a journy finding this, should be canceled on the keydown event

document.addEventListener('keydown',function(e){
   e.preventDefault();
   return false;
});

further simplified to :

document.onkeydown = function(e){
   e.preventDefault();
}

given you have only one keydown event