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JavaScript No Right Click<body oncontextmenu="return false;"> We covered JavaScript Events,
where a particular event occurs as part of a particular element of the
page. When a right click occurs, the "context menu" event of the main
document (i.e. Reasons to alter right click menuLong ago, blocking right click could prevent users from copying your content or viewing your source. Users of early versions of Internet Explorer were accustomed to right clicking and selecting the "view source" option; blocking right click quietly prevented this. Today, the simplest way to view the source of a page in the latest version of Internet Explorer requires a right click, as the view menu (with an equivalent "View Source" option that cannot be blocked) is not immediately available. However, many modern browsers include keyboard shortcuts for right click or other means to access the source. In fact, blocking right click can be nothing but an annoyance for users. Rather, blocking right click allows developers to put something in its place. For example, Google's web-based word processing software blocks has a no right click script but replaces the default right click menu with its own, just as you would expect from any word processing software. This allows Google to create powerful applications that make use of a variety of user input methods. DOM scripting approachAnd, of course, this can also be achieved by binding to the body element's event at runtime:
Given that this is a JavaScript function, one can easily substitute a dynamically-created context menu here, or perform some other action.
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