Websites Which Block Right-Click

We have all been there where we go to a website and try and right click on something just to be greeted with an ugly popup stating that right click has been disabled. Reasons for this seem to vary. Sometimes it is valid, such as creating a game using a HTML canvas, but most of the time it is developers believing that they can add “security” to the site by disabling right click. After all, there is no way that user can steal your images that way.

Except that is completely wrong. Sometimes you just need to be able to right click. There are multiple ways of disabling right click, but the most common way is to use JavaScript and to reassign the oncontextmenu event. To get around this simply open your browsers console and enter:

document.oncontextmenu = new function(e){return true;}

Sometimes this isn’t enough however and you may need to re-enable more functions. Reason being that when you right click, the mouse down and up events still fire and the click can be prevented there. Apply the following lines until you find which works:

document.onmousedown = new function(e){return true;}
document.onmouseup = new function(e){return true;}
document.body.oncontextmenu = new function(e){return true;}
document.onmousedown = new function(e){return true;}
document.onmouseup = new function(e){return true;}

Unfortunately, this list isn’t fool proof. To do that would take far too much time, if it is even possible. If these don’t work, I suggest digging around in the page source your self.