# Prevent text selection and right-click actions

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-text-selection-and-right-click-actions/311289>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [June 9, 2024, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-text-selection-and-right-click-actions/311289 "2024-06-09T10:56:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-text-selection-and-right-click-actions/311289/7 "2024-06-10T13:49:41Z")

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Maybe your changes will convince the people who are generating text and that’ll convince them that you are trying to help, but here are two very easy easy ways to get the text that bypass javascript completely.

[https://meta.discourse.org/raw/311289/3](https://meta.discourse.org/raw/311289/3) and [https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-text-selection-and-right-click-actions/311289/3.json](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-text-selection-and-right-click-actions/311289/3.json)

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