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[abelmont]

This is my first time trying a message board I tried to email and it didn't work so I thought this may be the way to go!!!! I love the graphics and want to purchase some but I need anyones advise as to how do I block right click copiers from my site???
Julia, God blessed you with such talent and encouragement for others - thanks for using them to His glory to share the Word with others!
Thanks for you help,
Adrienne

[creativ4]

Hi Adrienne,

First of all, that is just such a lovely name

People used to always use a 'no right click' javascript but it had many flaws so anymore most of us use special body tags in our html.

oncontextmenu="return false" onselectstart="return false" ondragstart="return false"

What you do is add them to your body tags right along where you put in your other body tags such as body background, text color and all that. If you don't do your pages by html and use a page editor, let me know what you use and I'll try to figure it out for you.

The oncontextmenu="return false" keeps people from right clicking so that they don't get their right click menu in order to 'save' your graphics.

The onselectstart="return false" keeps people from selecting your text in order to highlight and copy it. (I have trouble with people stealing my text so I use this one, although I leave it off of pages that I allow the text to be taken)

The ondragstart="return false" keeps people from clicking on your graphics and dragging them to their browser address bar because if they do that they can also get your graphic no matter if you do have a right click protection.

There are a few of the lower versions of browsers that these tags won't work for but also the javascripts don't work in all either and people can turn off javascripts and still take your graphics so that's why I use these instead of a no right click javascript. There's not a 100% way to cover everybody's browsers.


Hope this helps,
Julia

[Bramblerose]

I think it helps, too, to have a link explaining what the problem is with it and why it is wrong. I used to wonder why people would say you could use their graphics but wanted you to download, not right-click (and I didn't even know what all that meant til I asked my in-house computer expert -- my 19-yr.-old son .) But I came across Julia's explanation in plain English and thought, "Oh! Ok, now I get it."

Of course, human nature being what it is , a lot of people will do it anyway unless you take the measures Julia mentioned. But for some of us, just explaining the situation was all it took.

[abelmont]

Thank you for your early AM response
Yes, I do use a page editor - homestead.com
I will also look into what they have for me to use!
In His Service with you,
Adrienne

[creativ4]

Hi Bramblerose,

I think most people that do take the graphics freely don't know any better. I mostly put the no right click protection for those who take and direct link to them because that messes up my bandwidth and many will just right click, highlight the 'properties' in a url and take them. Of course others just 'view' your source and find the graphic properties in there and use them so it's never a win win situation. Any graphic protection means just slows it down some.

I have more trouble with people stealing my text and putting it on their websites than I have trouble with graphic theft.

I always wish there was a netiquette course you had to take before you were allowed to surf the internet

Julia