General Chat / Preventing Right-clicking on a Website

  • 19-September 07
  • Jellybones%s's Photo
    United States Jellybones Offline
    So I am designing a website for my school's photography club. We plan to display lots of photos, some of which are from some pro photographers that are part of our faculty. So we want to make sure people can't be reproducing anyone's work. There's a way to prevent people from right-clicking and saving pictures, right? Can anyone tell me how? Many thanks.
    posted 18 years ago
  • ][ntamin22%s's Photo
    United States ][ntamin22 Offline
    you can always just print screen anyway. =/
    posted 18 years ago
  • gir%s's Photo
    United States gir Offline
    the media tab in firefox's page info is also pretty useful for that...I don't know of any real ways around print-screen either.
    posted 18 years ago
  • ][ntamin22%s's Photo
    United States ][ntamin22 Offline
    possibly a flash pop-up viewer instead of an on-page picture?
    i know a few sites have done it, but can't remember where
    posted 18 years ago
  • Jellybones%s's Photo
    United States Jellybones Offline
    All true!

    I don't really care, just the club president. Not like we'll be posting hi-res images, but who knows.
    posted 18 years ago
  • Magnus%s's Photo
    Germany Magnus Offline
    No high resolution pictures, strong compression and/or watermarking pictures is the only way to prevent other people from copyinf them.

    Good luck with the project. Looking forward to see those pictures.
    posted 18 years ago
  • JJ%s's Photo
    United Kingdom JJ Offline
    There is no way... to stop it.

    watermarking pictures people can just edit out the watermark :|
    posted 18 years ago
  • Magnus%s's Photo
    Germany Magnus Offline
    Good luck and that one is rather small ...
    posted 18 years ago
  • Casimir%s's Photo
    Germany Casimir Offline
    Give me 20 minutes and I'll copy the shit out of that one :D

    A simple "no right click allowed" would be something like

    <body oncontextmenu="return false">

    That just disables the right-click-context menu. Prevents those from copying the image who don't know how to take a look at the source code ^^
    posted 18 years ago
  • Magnus%s's Photo
    Germany Magnus Offline
    Sure it is possible, but 20 minutes are way too much time for such a picture ...
    Usually the photographers puts his watermark diagonal over the full image. This really is the best way to protect your work ... apart from not showing it.
    posted 18 years ago
  • Midnight Aurora%s's Photo
    United States Midnight Aurora Offline
    I found a website once when I print-screened it came up as only the watermark. So obviously something like that is possible. But for the most part, anyone trying to steal a picture from a school website isn't going to be all that smart to begin with.
    posted 18 years ago
  • Casimir%s's Photo
    Germany Casimir Offline
    I just checked it, the
    <body oncontextmenu="return false">
    works in html. No context menu when you right-click on the page.
    But as already said, just for those who don't look at the source code.
    posted 18 years ago

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