JavaScript - No Right Click on a Specific Image not all images

[mahmoud]

I am writing my pages in XHTML Strict which does not have target=" " in the <a> tags
so I use javascript to open some links in a new window

and since not all of my visitors will know javascript
some of them will click the right click and choose open in a new window and they will get ERROR
and I will get 100s of emails saying your site sucks and your pages are missing

I have buttons, I want to disable the right click on them so I do not get this problem. Not all of my page images ofcourse ..

Is this possible?

[makeda]

mahmoud,

check out this javascript:

<script language="JavaScript1.1">
<!--
function right(e) {
if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' && (e.which == 3 || e.which == 2))
return false;
else if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' && (event.button == 2 || event.button == 3)) {
alert("Cannot right click");
return false;
}
return true;
}

document.onmousedown=right;
document.onmouseup=right;
if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEUP);
window.onmousedown=right;
window.onmouseup=right;
// End -->
</script>

I had seen this used somewhere and copied it down. It effectively disables the right click option and displays an alert box. You can remove the line for the alert box and have nothing happen. This seems to work in IE but check out Netscape. Is this what you're looking for?

[makeda]

sorry, forgot to mention...for your problem, i was thinking that this code could be rewritten into a function whereby it gets called during an onclick event. When clicked, it evalutates if it is a right clicked or not. Thereby the images that you want to disable, you assign them an onclick event which calls this function.

[mahmoud]

Thanks, I'll check it out