How can I disable drag and drop?

[acoder]

Just a couple of notes:
1. The script language attribute is deprecated, so use type instead:

<script type="text/javascript">

2. Unless you want to display a message, return false as hsriat pointed out is better:
[code=html]<div id="myDiv" onmousedown="re turn false;">[/CODE]

[solnyc]

Thank you for your help. I haven't been able to get this to work but that's probably because I don't know how to write the full code. As a Newbie, I am VERY new and haven't written any Java script before. However, the routine described by RamananKaliraja n works well. Thanks to everyone who has replied to my question ..... mclerp

Hi RamananKaliraja n,

I tried using that code you wrote for the "image disable". You'd had said there is a way to get around the text issue so folks can type in input boxes while not being able to drag images.

Can you explain how to do this?

Thanks in advance

[rnd me]

two tricks that work even if javascript is disabled:

1. change the images to relative positioned divs, height and width specified. then set the background-image to the .src of the img tag the div replaces.

2. place a relative positioned, background-color: transparent, height and width specified, border: 0px text input in front of the image. this clear input intercepts clicks even without javascript, giving you the crappy input-related menu options like paste, select All, and copy.

[solnyc]

It seems that there is no multi-browser script that keeps users from downloading/dragging images to their computer desktop.

or is there?