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an add-on to make text non-highlightable?

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Does an add-on exist that will let me make all text on a page non-highlightable? I would like to prevent copy/paste possibilities on a website with extensive text content. I don't see anything in the marketplace, but may simply be lacking the correct search terms.

Thanks!
 
mesuva replied on at Permalink Reply
mesuva
You can't prevent someone from copying and pasting content from a website.

You can try to add some scripts to stop actions like right clicking, like the first script on the page:http://ctrlq.org/code/19637-prevent-people-copying-text-web-pages...

But I'd suggest that they're probably more trouble than they're worth (which is not much when someone who wants to copy from your site can easily work around it).
elementals replied on at Permalink Reply
Thanks for the info mesuva :) I know that you can't completely prevent people from grabbing your content (I mean, DL the whole page as HTML - not that tough) - this is just the "locked doors mean most burglars go to an easier target" approach :)

I have a work-around that seems effective for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE - it doesn't work in Opera, but that's a tiny percentage of users.

I put this CSS in place on the whole site with a CSS block:

.draggable {
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -khtml-user-select: none;
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -o-user-select: none;
    -ms-user-select: none;
    user-select: none;
}
.draggable input { 
    -webkit-user-select: text; 
    -khtml-user-select: text; 
    -moz-user-select: text; 
    -o-user-select: text; 
    user-select: text; 
 }


And then wrapped the text I wished to be un-selectable in this div tag in my 'content' block:

<div class="draggable"></div>


So I've got most browsers covered.

In the day and age of copyrighted work being scraped and reposted as plagiarized work, something like this would be a really nice tool to have in the market-place :)