How Do I Disable Copy Features

[club_krome]

is there a way to disable copying of text on a web page and i don't mean taking away right click i also need to either stop people from being able to highlight text or disable ctrl c

[filburt1]

Originally posted by club_krome
is there a way to disable copying of text on a web page and i don't mean taking away right click i also need to either stop people from being able to highlight text or disable ctrl c

There is simply no surefire way of doing it. Since the HTML source is even cached on your own machine the code and content can be ripped right out. The most annoying thing you could do would be to make the text one big image but that has obvious disadvantages.

[Joe Gronlund]

yaa make it a PSD with PS and export it as .gif or.jpg and just update the PSD when the info needs updating and export again..

[nemesis01]

Try this:

Place this code in the header:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.2" src="nocopy.js"></script>

Unzip and upload the attached file to your site root.

Not sure if this will work, I saw it on a website the other day by chance and it works on there. Not sure if it's their own work though or something from a javascript website so it's up to you whether you use it or not.

[IDN]

Originally posted by nemesis01
Try this:

Place this code in the header:

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript1.2" src="nocopy.js"></script>

Unzip and upload the attached file to your site root.

Not sure if this will work, I saw it on a website the other day by chance and it works on there. Not sure if it's their own work though or something from a javascript website so it's up to you whether you use it or not.

Just diable javascript.

Or Edit > View Source, or just vies source

Work offline when it and edit the page, save it to your machine.

If it is online it can be riped.

Guess you could flash it. But they can just right it down word for word

[DWZ]

Originally posted by IDN
Guess you could flash it. But they can just right it down word for word

They could do this even if highlighting or CTR-C was disabled...

[pedro_gb]

Originally posted by DWZ
They could do this even if highlighting or CTR-C was disabled...

Or OCR it.

[IDN]

Originally posted by pedro_gb
Or OCR it.

OCR?

[ccd1]

Opitcal Character Recognition?

[MacKenzie]

I must always wonder why people would publicly publish something on the net and not expect people to be able to copy it down. If you didn't want it out there, then don't put it out there to start with.

[pedro_gb]

Originally posted by baragon0
Opitcal Character Recognition?

Yeah, you could simply take a screenshot and run it through a program like OmniPage. If we can read it, chances are the program can as well. Unless they're those highly-distorced numbers we have to sometimes type when registering on certain sites.

[Vile]

Originally posted by IDN

Guess you could flash it. But they can just right it down word for word

If you flash it, all you have to do is browse temp internet files directory, fiind + save the SWF. After that you could decompile the SWF and do whatever.

[JamesUS]

Originally posted by club_krome
is there a way to disable copying of text on a web page and i don't mean taking away right click i also need to either stop people from being able to highlight text or disable ctrl c

I'm afraid all of this basically points to the fact that it is totally impossible to prevent people from copying text from your website. As MacKenzie said earlier, if you don't want it to be copied then don't put it online at all!