I'm using a HTML5 video player on my website and I want to disable right clicking on all my videos.
I tried using this code and it doesn't work:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#videoElementID').bind('contextmenu',function() { return false; });
});
</script>
I'm using Wordpress and placed the function above in the header.php file.
How can I check what is the #videoElementID name for my player? I tried with all the DIV elements on the page and it still doesn't work.
I know this won't prevent users to download my videos but I really need to make this work.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
My favorite method which is quick and easy and does not require javascript is to add the oncontextmenu="return false;"
to the video tag.
So something like this:
<video oncontextmenu="return false;" id="my-video-player" width="854" height="480" controls autoplay>
<source src="https://example.com/link-to-my-video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("video").bind("contextmenu",function(){
return false;
});
} );
This should disable right click on all the video elements in that page. Hope this helps.
The right click menu is a function of the web browser. To disable it, you can try to add the following JavaScript to the head section of your web page, just before the tag.
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery('video').bind('contextmenu',function() { return false; });
});
It works fine for me.
$(document).bind("contextmenu",function(ev){
if(ev.target.nodeName=='VIDEO')
{
return false;
}
});