Question

Is there a way to disable drag and drop the image from a webpage to desktop?

I know it can be done by javascript onmousedown event, but it is possible that the user might disable the javascript? So i am thinking of another way…

Thanks.

Answer 1

I was in the same problem some days ago.. and short out my problem by these tech.

1) If you are designing your site in ‘s. You can do something like a transparent gif as an image overlay. Like lets say that this is your coding.

<table width=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>

<tr>
<td background="imageyouwanttoprotect.jpg" width="200" height="100">
<img src="transparentgif.gif" width="200" height="100">
</td>
</tr>

</table>

I haven’t tested this but it’s an interesting idea. They will be copying a transparent gif instead of the actual image.

May be this can help you.

2) Also maybe you can make your picture a link.

Like <a href="copyright.html" ><img src="imageyouwanttoprotect.jpg border=0></a>

The person will be pulling the html file instead of the image file, and maybe you can have the copyright.html saying like: Sorry you can’t have this image or something like that.