Is there a way of making the text in a website unable to be copied and pasted from the page in the browser?

Question

The site is constructed in Dreamweaver.

Answer 1

there is ALWAYS a way. it just depends how imaginative the person trying to copy it is.

you can add javascript code(s) to disable a bunch of things like right clicks, or mess up the ability to highlight something by making the left click action do something weird. but at the end of they day they could probably just get it from inside the page itself using:
view > source

you can make it harder to stop casual copying of your text, but nothing you try will make much difference to anyone that knows computer stuff quite well.

to refer to an earlier point i made, i run mozilla firefox with all javascript disabled so any page with code to stop me doing stuff within the page would be ignored by my computer lol

Answer 2

You could try:

1)Creating a page which has a frame or iframe in the centre.

2)Inside the frame place you actual page containing the text, (preferably converted into an image file)

3)Inside the same page using javascript set it so that it will only be opened inside a frameset (code can be found here:http://javascript.internet.com/navigation/force-frames.html)

4)also disable right click using javascript

in theory they should no longer be able to view the source of your page, only of the page that sets up the frame and as you have right click disabled they wont be able to right click and choose view source inside the frame.
If they do view the source they will see the URL of the actual page but if they try to visit it they will be knocked back to the frame page by the javascript.

i havant tried this but it might work.
hope it makes sense.

Answer 3

You can use fancy javascript to perform such a task, on top of that use javascript to encode the page. This makes it tougher for people to do what you ask, however there will always be a way to capture that text since you can just view the DOM source of the page.

Answer 4

Any text can be copied. What you can do is create the text in a photo program and save as a gif or jpg. They would then have to copy the picture and somehow extract the text from it which would be difficult. The downside of this is that it will not resize smoothly.

Answer 5

not really, you can disable the right click with javascript but then you could use "edit > copy". you could insert the text as an image but more hassle than it's worth.

if you want to protect it you could maybe host that page on some other site that requires a login.

sorry - not much help really, good luck thi

:¬)

Answer 6

You can use javascript to disable the context menu. When the user does a right click they will get no drop down.

You can use CSS to stop them from printing the page. If they try to print it they will get a blank page.

You can disable the edit menu by adding this to the body of the html.
ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false"

Answer 7

The only way . make an image file with your text in it

1) right click - all someone has to do is diable java script.
2) java - view source and they can get your text.

Image files are the only way they can't copy it.

Answer 8

There is a thing called "right click protect", you can do it in PHP and HTML...refer to a code book or google to find the commands.

Answer 9

there is...for me, am using JavaScript right click protected...but it is not recommended....because it can be view by viewing the source code of the HTML...

Answer 10

search it in google. i mean search right click protect