How to disable right-click context-menu in JavaScript

javascript contextmenu
Jimmy picture Jimmy · Dec 19, 2008 · Viewed 213.2k times · Source

Not that I'm trying to prevent 'View Source' or anything silly like that, but I'm making some custom context menus for certain elements.

EDIT: response to answers: I've tried this:

<a id="moo" href=''> </a>

<script type="text/javascript">
    var moo = document.getElementById('moo');

    function handler(event) {
        event = event || window.event;

        if (event.stopPropagation)
            event.stopPropagation();

        event.cancelBubble = true;
        return false;
    }

    moo.innerHTML = 'right-click here';

    moo.onclick = handler;
    moo.onmousedown = handler;
    moo.onmouseup = handler;
</script>

Answer

by0 picture by0 · Jun 7, 2013

If you don't care about alerting the user with a message every time they try to right click, try adding this to your body tag

<body oncontextmenu="return false;">

This will block all access to the context menu (not just from the right mouse button but from the keyboard as well)

However, there really is no point adding a right click disabler. Anyone with basic browser knowledge can view the source and extract the information they need.

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