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copied!<p>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.</p> <p>Check out <a href="http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex9/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this page</a> 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".</p> <p>Disable Text Select Script:</p> <pre><code>/*********************************************** * 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" </code></pre> <p>No right click script:</p> <pre><code>//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") </code></pre>

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