Prevent copying text in web-page

Anton picture Anton · Jan 21, 2012 · Viewed 95.7k times · Source

I've got quiz application. Where robot ask different questions in chat, this questions belong to different areas of knowledges. User that answered question first, receive points. The problem is, that some users googling answers. I want somehow prevent users from coping question from web page and googling answers.

I'm not even sure, that this is possible, anyway probably someone got any ideas

Answer

mowwwalker picture mowwwalker · Jan 22, 2012

Here: How to disable text selection highlighting using CSS?

-webkit-user-select: none;
-khtml-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
-o-user-select: none;
user-select: none;

Disallow them from being able to answer when the window's onBlur event is fired. They can still use other devices, but they won't be able to cheat on the same computer.