Some webmasters disable the right click menu on their websites to prevent people from saving images onto their desktop. [The screenshot is from the online edition of a print newspaper.]
As you already know, there are a zillion options to bypass that "right click" barrier - you can do a screen capture or copy that protected image from the web browser's cache or read the image URL from the HTML source of the web page and then save the image using your favorite download manager.
All the above methods work but the only problem is that they are geeky. So let's take look at another approach that requires absolutely no effort - it's called "drag-n-drop."
Just point your mouse pointer over the image, press and hold the left click button and drag that image either to browser address bar or somewhere on destkop. That's it. No hunting required.
The drag-n-drop method really comes handy when the web page is opened in a window that has no menus, scroll bars or the toolbar.
Related: Protect Website Images with Flash, Flickr SpaceBall Protection
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/10/download-image-from-webpage-when-right.html
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Reader Comments
This click and drag tip didn't work for me on my site. It just dragged the "alt" text into the address bar, that was in Firefox, by the way. Any thoughts?
db
Written on 16/10/07 3:41 PM
You can also right click, hold down
press space to confirm the messagebox and then release
works for 95% of the norightclick scripts
or just use firefox, go to the properties menu and the tab 'images', where you have them all
Tim
Written on 16/10/07 4:20 PM
David - Is that a hyperlinked image ?
Anon - That looks like another good option. Thanks.
Written on 16/10/07 4:35 PM
Just save the page from File>Save Page As. Then, grab the image file from the associated folder.
hope it works.
peace:
kryptonova
Written on 16/10/07 8:03 PM
Thanks a lot amit, that was a great tip.
Written on 17/10/07 9:26 AM
thanks for the great tip.. will be very useful for me..
Written on 17/10/07 1:25 PM
(1) Use firefox web-developer toolbar. In Images menu click View Images Information.
(2) for background images use firebug & click inspect to get background image.
Written on 23/10/07 5:40 PM