Preventing an image from being draggable or select

Question

Does anyone know of a way to make an image not draggable and not selectable -- at the same time -- in Firefox, without resorting to Javascript? Seems trivial, but here's the issue:

1) Can be dragged and highlighted in Firefox:

<img src="...">

2) So we add this, but image can still be highlighted while dragging:

<img src="..." draggable="false">

3) So we add this, to fix the highlighting issue, but then counterintuitively, the image become draggable again. Weird, I know! Using FF 16.0.1

<img src="..." draggable="false" style="-moz-user-select: none;">

So, does anyone know why adding "-moz-user-select: none", would somehow trump and disable "draggable=false"? Of course, webkit works as expected. Nothing is out there on the Interwebs about this...It would be great if we could shine some light on this together.

Thanks!!

Edit: This is about keeping UI elements from being inadvertently dragged and improving usability - not some lame attempt at a copy protection scheme :-)

Answer 1

You could set the image as a background image. Since it resides in a div, and the div is undraggable, the image will be undraggable:

<div style="background-image: url("image.jpg");">
</div>

Answer 2

I've been forgetting to share my solution, I couldn't find a way to do this without using JS. There are some corner cases where @Jeffery A Wooden's suggested CSS just wont cover.

This is what I apply to all of my UI containers, no need to apply to each element since it recuses on all the child elements.

.unselectable {
    /* For Opera and <= IE9, we need to add unselectable="on" attribute onto each element */
    /* Check this site for more details: http://help.dottoro.com/lhwdpnva.php */
    -moz-user-select: none; /* These user-select properties are inheritable, used to prevent text selection */
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -ms-user-select: none; /* From IE10 only */
    user-select: none; /* Not valid CSS yet, as of July 2012 */

    -webkit-user-drag: none; /* Prevents dragging of images/divs etc */
    user-drag: none;
}

var makeUnselectable = function( $target ) {
    $target
        .addClass( 'unselectable' ) // All these attributes are inheritable
        .attr( 'unselectable', 'on' ) // For IE9 - This property is not inherited, needs to be placed onto everything
        .attr( 'draggable', 'false' ) // For moz and webkit, although Firefox 16 ignores this when -moz-user-select: none; is set, it's like these properties are mutually exclusive, seems to be a bug.
        .on( 'dragstart', function() { return false; } );  // Needed since Firefox 16 seems to ingore the 'draggable' attribute we just applied above when '-moz-user-select: none' is applied to the CSS 

    $target // Apply non-inheritable properties to the child elements
        .find( '*' )
        .attr( 'draggable', 'false' )
        .attr( 'unselectable', 'on' ); 
};

This was way more complicated than it needed to be.

Answer 3

You could probably just resort to

<img src="..." style="pointer-events: none;">

Answer 4

Depending on the situation, it is often helpful to make the image a background image of a div with CSS.

<div id='my-image'></div>

Then in CSS:

#my-image {
    background-image: url('/img/foo.png');
    width: ???px;
    height: ???px;
}

See this JSFiddle for a live example with a button and a different sizing option.

Answer 5

A generic solution especially for Windows Edge browser (as the -ms-user-select: none; CSS rule doesn't work):

window.ondragstart = function() {return false}

Note: This can save you having to add draggable=false to every img tag when you still need the click event (i.e. you can't use pointer-events=none), but don't want the drag icon image to appear.

Answer 6

Set the following CSS properties to the image:

user-drag: none; 
user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-webkit-user-drag: none;
-webkit-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;