Disable right mouse click script

[sushil]

This is a cross browser DHTML script that will prevent the default right menu from popping up when the right mouse is clicked on the web page. Use it to stop surfers from easily saving your web page, viewing its source, or lifting images off your site when using either IE 4+ or NS 4+.

<script language=JavaScript>
<!--

//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")

// --> 
</script>

[DaveSawers]

All that disabling the right click menu will do is p#$s off your visitors so they go somewhere else for their information. It won't stop any hackers from stealing whatever they want as there are many other ways of getting that information.

[wige]

Most Windows XP keyboards have a key that looks like a little menu, which does the same thing as clicking the right mouse button. Disabling the clicks will have no effect on most visitors anymore. In addition, everything a browser displays is cached on the user's computer and can be retrieved in a few clicks anyway.

[Webnauts]

Disabling the right mouse click sucks. It is unusable and useless!

[CarolSLC]

I'm currently building a new site for a client who specifically requested that I disable the right mouse click on her site. She didn't want people to steal her content and images that she feels she worked so hard on. I didn't want to do it, but now I have facts to go back to her with as to why we shouldn't bother. Thank you!

[owt200x]

there are body codes that disable right clicking and text highlighting, but they only work in IE I think.

When I go to a site that has rightclick disabled, I go through their code to see whats important enough to do that. 100% of the time all it is, is they dont want their image links copied, which can be foind in the source anyway.