{"id":336,"date":"2011-08-04T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-08-04T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T12:45:15","slug":"jquery-disable-right-click-context-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/jquery-disable-right-click-context-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"jQuery disable right click context menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can find a quick one-liner on how to disable the browser context menu anywhere, but I just wanted to make sure you know about the options.<\/p>\n<p>Disabling the context menu entirely can be a nuisance for many users, as they may depend on it to create a bookmark, navigate back\/forward or refresh the page.<\/p>\n<p>If you primary purpose is protecting images from a quick &quot;Save As&quot;, the jQuery example below demonstrates how to disable the context menu on images only.<\/p>\n<p><code>$(&#39;img&#39;).bind(&quot;contextmenu&quot;,function(e){ return false; }); <br \/>\n\t<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If you wish to &quot;protect&quot; the entire page, you might consider use a jQuery context menu, which does not include Image saving capabilities:<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"target-blank\" href=\"http:\/\/plugins.jquery.com\/project\/jqueryContextMenu\">http:\/\/plugins.jquery.com\/project\/jqueryContextMenu<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"target-blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trendskitchens.co.nz\/jquery\/contextmenu\/\">http:\/\/www.trendskitchens.co.nz\/jquery\/contextmenu\/<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you&#39;re never really protected using this method &#8211; the user can always disable JavaScript, or print the page.&nbsp; The best level of protection is probably a watermark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find a quick one-liner on how to disable the browser context menu anywhere, but I just wanted to make sure you know about&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amp_status":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sitekickr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}