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Printscreen

Posted by Matt Gerrans on November 01, 2001 at 3:18 PM

> > Hi Sachin,

> > I too need the answer for disabling the Print Screen in my WebPage. So please send me a mail if you have the answer for that. I'll also send it if i get it. My mail id is mt_karasu@yahoo.com. Bye...

> > regards
> > Thiru.

> > > I want to disable the PrintScreen option, so that the user will not be able to copy the content of screen . How should I do it?

> It is not possible to disable the win OS printscreen functionality from a web page. I think alt-printscreen is handled by the OS not the browser so therefore you can not use script to trap and block it.

> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, i too was searching for this solution only to find that is is not possible.

Yes, I agree it is impossible and even if you figured out a way on any one particular platform, you'd still have many others to deal with.

What I have seen as a "solution" to this was on an art gallery website. What they did was display the images with an applet that had some little image moving around on top of the picture, so if you did a screenshot, it would always be obscured, yet at the same time you could see the whole picture, in time.

- mfg