Stopping mouse selecting text

RelaxoRy

Is there any way to stop someone getting their mouse and selecting
text on a page (without making the text an image of course). Is it
possible to trap and stop click-and-drag functionality from the mouse?

Bit of a stranger request but can it be done? :)

Cheers
Ryan

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Vjekoslav Begovic

Something like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
mClicked=false
</script>

<body onmousedown="mClicked=true" onmuseup="mClicked=false" onmousemove="if
(mClicked) alert('Disabled'); mClicked=false">

"RelaxoRy" <re******@postmaster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3b**************************@posting.google.c om...

Is there any way to stop someone getting their mouse and selecting
text on a page (without making the text an image of course). Is it
possible to trap and stop click-and-drag functionality from the mouse?

Bit of a stranger request but can it be done? :)

Cheers
Ryan

Jul 20 '05 #2

Richard Cornford

"RelaxoRy" <re******@postmaster.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3b**************************@posting.google.c om...

Is there any way to stop someone getting their mouse and
selecting text on a page (without making the text an image
of course). Is it possible to trap and stop click-and-drag
functionality from the mouse? Bit of a stranger request but can it be done? :)

Yes and No. IE browsers have events like onselectstart and ondragstart
that can be cancelled, effectively inhibiting the selection of content.
Opera, on the other hand, has no mechanism for doing anything of the
sort.

You will have to explain why you want to prevent text selection because
you are probably attempting to solve the wrong problem and explaining
what the real problem is would enable people to suggest ways of solving
it.

Richard.

Jul 20 '05 #3

David Dorward

Vjekoslav Begovic wrote:

"RelaxoRy" <re******@postmaster.co.uk> wrote
Is there any way to stop someone getting their mouse and selecting
text on a page

Something like this:

<snip> JS </script>

Of course, if the objective is to stop people copy/pasting the content, its
a fruitless endeavour. There is nothing to stop people from viewing the
source or turning JS off.

http://david.us-lot.org/www/hide/

--
David Dorward http://david.us-lot.org/
Which is stupider: Pop-up ads claiming they'll stop spam, or spam claiming
it'll stop pop-up ads? -- Dork Tower

Jul 20 '05 #4

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

re******@postmaster.co.uk (RelaxoRy) writes:

Is there any way to stop someone getting their mouse and selecting
text on a page (without making the text an image of course). Is it
possible to trap and stop click-and-drag functionality from the mouse?
Generally, no.

Some browsers has event handlers like "ondragstart" which can be
canceled. Others don't. In all cases, turning off Javascript will
stop that attempt.
Bit of a stranger request but can it be done? :)

IN some situations, yes. In general, no.
In general, you shouldn't want to interfere with the users' way
of using a browser.

/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lr*@hotpop.com
Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

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