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[Solved] Disable right-click (i.e. disable context menu)
(@hans)
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Topic starter
June 16, 2017 9:18 AM
Sometimes you'd like to prevent users from right clicking elements or maybe even your entire page.
There are a lot of tricks out there, JavaScript included, but I really like this one. It's simple, and works for most modern browsers.
<div oncontextmenu="return false">
blabla
</div>
or for the entire page:
<body oncontextmenu="return false">
The beauty is that it can also be used to call a JavaScript function, to replace the context menu.
<div oncontextmenu="myFunction()">
...
<script>
function myFunction() {
alert("You right clicked!");
}
</script>