Disabling Copy/Paste in a Web Page

Question

How Do I disable the copy paste feature in my webpage. To be precise, I don\'t want my users to copy any information from my website and use them for personal purposes. The

Answer 1

You need to rethink your strategy if you're resorting to these measures on the front end. What you are trying to do is inherently wrong.

As a visitor to your web page, pulling something like this is just going to annoy me - I will eventually figure out what you've done and get around it. That said, I've recently found this particular method can be quite effective if you're aiming to restrict impatient or non-technical users. Proceed with caution...

  
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...and the CSS:

.text {
  position: relative;
  width: auto; /* can be fixed as well (ie 400px) */
  width: auto; /* can be fixed as well (ie 400px) */
  z-index: 0;
}

.preventSelect {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  z-index: 1;
}

The obvious drawback for this method is that the user cannot interact with anything inside the div we're preventSelecting. That includes links, buttons, images etc.

Please don't use this unless you absolutely have to. Frankly, it's a pain in the ass for everyone.