Prevent selecting & copying

Question

I want to inactive selecting & copying text in html page. when I used Javascript & inactive right click user can use Ctrl+V!!

Answer 1

While I agree in principle with the other posters that trying to do this may annoy the user, sometimes a manager or customer demands that this be done, and so an answer needs to be supplied.

Check out this page on www.dynamicdrive.com that will supply you with a few JavaScripts towards this end. Specifically see "Disable Text Select Script" and "No right click script".

Disable Text Select Script:

/***********************************************
* Disable Text Selection script- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for full source code
***********************************************/

function disableSelection(target){
if (typeof target.onselectstart!="undefined") //IE route
    target.onselectstart=function(){return false}
else if (typeof target.style.MozUserSelect!="undefined") //Firefox route
    target.style.MozUserSelect="none"
else //All other route (ie: Opera)
    target.onmousedown=function(){return false}
target.style.cursor = "default"
}

//Sample usages
//disableSelection(document.body) //Disable text selection on entire body
//disableSelection(document.getElementById("mydiv")) //Disable text selection on element with id="mydiv"

No right click script:

//Disable right mouse click Script
//By Maximus (maximus@nsimail.com) w/ mods by DynamicDrive
//For full source code, visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com
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")

Answer 2

There is no full proof solution. You can play javascript games (easy to turn off). You can place invisible layers about the text so it can't be selected easily (easy to view source). You can use images instead of text (just bad).

Answer 3

You can't. Don't even try. Don't annoy your users.

If you put it publicly on the web, it can be copied. Technically, it already is copied as soon as the user sees it. As colithium pointed out, all the techniques can be circumvented. Heck, you can look at the source code. You can curl the raw data from the command line, no JS/IMG/layer hack can prevent that.