How to re-enable right click so that I can inspect HTML elements in Chrome?

Question

I am looking at a web page which has overwritten the right-click button so to display its own popup HTML element.

This prevents me from using Chrome Developer Tools to

Answer 1

If they have just changed the oncontextmenu handler (which is the most straightforward way to do it), then you can remove their override thus:

window.oncontextmenu = null;

Otherwise, if it is attached to individual elements, you can get all the page's elements, and then remove the handler on each one:

var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for(var id = 0; id < elements.length; ++id) { elements[id].oncontextmenu = null; }

Or, it seems you can turn off such scripts; via an extension in Chrome or an option in Firefox - in the advanced box for javascript options, switch off 'Disable or replace context menus'.

Answer 2

I built upon @Chema solution and added resetting pointer-events and user-select. If they are set to none for an image, right-clicking it does not invoke the context menu for the image with options to view or save it.

javascript:function enableContextMenu(aggressive = true) { void(document.ondragstart=null); void(document.onselectstart=null); void(document.onclick=null); void(document.onmousedown=null); void(document.onmouseup=null); void(document.body.oncontextmenu=null); enableRightClickLight(document); if (aggressive) { enableRightClick(document); removeContextMenuOnAll('body'); removeContextMenuOnAll('img'); removeContextMenuOnAll('td'); } } function removeContextMenuOnAll(tagName) { var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(tagName); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { enableRightClick(elements[i]); enablePointerEvents(elements[i]); } } function enableRightClickLight(el) { el || (el = document); el.addEventListener('contextmenu', bringBackDefault, true); } function enableRightClick(el) { el || (el = document); el.addEventListener('contextmenu', bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener('dragstart', bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener('selectstart', bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener('click', bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener('mousedown', bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener('mouseup', bringBackDefault, true); } function restoreRightClick(el) { el || (el = document); el.removeEventListener('contextmenu', bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener('dragstart', bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener('selectstart', bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener('click', bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener('mousedown', bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener('mouseup', bringBackDefault, true); } function bringBackDefault(event) { event.returnValue = true; (typeof event.stopPropagation === 'function') && event.stopPropagation(); (typeof event.cancelBubble === 'function') && event.cancelBubble(); } function enablePointerEvents(el) {  if (!el) return; el.style.pointerEvents='auto'; el.style.webkitTouchCallout='default'; el.style.webkitUserSelect='auto'; el.style.MozUserSelect='auto'; el.style.msUserSelect='auto'; el.style.userSelect='auto'; enablePointerEvents(el.parentElement); } enableContextMenu();

Answer 3

Open inspect mode before navigating to the page. It worked.hehe

Answer 4

If none of the other comments works, just do, open console line command and type:

document.oncontextmenu = null;

Answer 5

This bookmarlet works in Google sites/Youtube as of Aug 2019 (tested in Chrome and Firefox):

javascript: function enableContextMenu(aggressive = false) { void(document.ondragstart=null); void(document.onselectstart=null); void(document.onclick=null); void(document.onmousedown=null); void(document.onmouseup=null); void(document.body.oncontextmenu=null); enableRightClickLight(document); if (aggressive) { enableRightClick(document); removeContextMenuOnAll("body"); removeContextMenuOnAll("img"); removeContextMenuOnAll("td"); } } function removeContextMenuOnAll(tagName) { var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(tagName); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { enableRightClick(elements[i]); } } function enableRightClickLight(el) { el || (el = document); el.addEventListener("contextmenu", bringBackDefault, true); } function enableRightClick(el) { el || (el = document); el.addEventListener("contextmenu", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("dragstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("selectstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("click", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("mousedown", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("mouseup", bringBackDefault, true); } function restoreRightClick(el) { el || (el = document); el.removeEventListener("contextmenu", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("dragstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("selectstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("click", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("mousedown", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("mouseup", bringBackDefault, true); } function bringBackDefault(event) { event.returnValue = true; (typeof event.stopPropagation === 'function') && event.stopPropagation(); (typeof event.cancelBubble === 'function') && event.cancelBubble(); } enableContextMenu();

For peskier sites, set/pass aggressive to true (this will disable most event handlers and hence disable interaction with the page):

javascript: function enableContextMenu(aggressive = true) { void(document.ondragstart=null); void(document.onselectstart=null); void(document.onclick=null); void(document.onmousedown=null); void(document.onmouseup=null); void(document.body.oncontextmenu=null); enableRightClickLight(document); if (aggressive) { enableRightClick(document); removeContextMenuOnAll("body"); removeContextMenuOnAll("img"); removeContextMenuOnAll("td"); } } function removeContextMenuOnAll(tagName) { var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(tagName); for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { enableRightClick(elements[i]); } } function enableRightClickLight(el) { el || (el = document); el.addEventListener("contextmenu", bringBackDefault, true); } function enableRightClick(el) { el || (el = document); el.addEventListener("contextmenu", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("dragstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("selectstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("click", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("mousedown", bringBackDefault, true); el.addEventListener("mouseup", bringBackDefault, true); } function restoreRightClick(el) { el || (el = document); el.removeEventListener("contextmenu", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("dragstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("selectstart", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("click", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("mousedown", bringBackDefault, true); el.removeEventListener("mouseup", bringBackDefault, true); } function bringBackDefault(event) { event.returnValue = true; (typeof event.stopPropagation === 'function') && event.stopPropagation(); (typeof event.cancelBubble === 'function') && event.cancelBubble(); } enableContextMenu();

Answer 6

Just Press F12

Go to Sources

There you will find Enable right click. Click on it.

Under this you will find web_accessible_resource.

Open it in this you will find index.js.

Press Ctrl + F and search for disabelRightClick. There you will find

        var disableRightClick = false;  

this line. Replace this line with

        var disableRightClick = true;

Just press Ctrl + s

!! Done. Now your right click is enabled !!