Disable or Preventing Copying of Text Using JavaScript

By JavaScript we can protect our text from copy-pasting, So the users are not able to do the copy of the text.

If we want to disable selection of text to protect our text or content from copy-pasting, then we can use the oncopy event of the element.

Example:

HTML:

<p id="myContent">Hello dear user, Please try to copy this content.</p>

JS:

var myContent = document.getElementById("myContent");

myContent.oncopy = function () {
    alert("Copying is forbidden!");
    return false;
};

Preventing Copying Live Demo

As you seen in above example, I register the oncopy event on the myContent element.

In this oncopy event we have to return false; to terminate the copying action so the content will be not copy.

When we return false; from the oncopy event than JavaScript will be preventing the copy of the content.

So compulsory we have to return false from the oncopy event.