FP2000: Sample JavaScript to Disable Text Selection in a Web Browser

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SUMMARY

This article provides sample JavaScript that you can add to a Web page to prevent a user from selecting text on your Web page. In other words, when a user drags the mouse over text on your Web page, nothing happens.

NOTE: This script also works in Netscape 6.0.

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Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. NOTE: You may receive an error message if you copy the examples directly from this article and paste them into FrontPage. The angle brackets (< and >) may appear as escaped HTML code (< and >). To work around this behavior, paste the script into a blank Notepad document, and then copy it from Notepad before you paste it into FrontPage.

In FrontPage, open the page to which you want to add the script.
Click the HTML tab.

Type the following JavaScript code between the <BODY> and </BODY> tags.

<script language="JavaScript1.2">

function disabletext(e){
return false
}

function reEnable(){
return true
}

//if the browser is IE4+
document.onselectstart=new Function ("return false")

//if the browser is NS6
if (window.sidebar){
document.onmousedown=disabletext
document.onclick=reEnable
}
</script>