The comprehensive guide to disabling selection on the web

1 · Evan Hahn · Aug. 26, 2011, 5 a.m.
Somebody asked me if I could figure out how to disable copy-paste on their website. I did some sleuthing and figured out that the internet really has no complete answer; here's the most comprehensive way to do it that I found. I don't really think that you should do this, nor does it work perfectly. These are simply my findings. Update, January 9, 2013: Added a ton of stuff and made many corrections. Update, June 22, 2014: Added IE6 toolbar info and some library version changes. In short: disabl...