Highlight text on a webpage code#
Highlight text on a webpage windows#

I know it’s confusing but check out below, to help you understandĪs opposed to disabling JavaScript from browser’s setting, some proxy website will give you an option to disables JavaScript before accessing a website. I know it’s confusing but check out below, to help you understand

Highlight text on a webpage code#

The only task will be to find the text within the codes mostly held by “” code which you can comfortably copy. If the website is right click enabled but you can’t select the text simply right click on the text and choose “Inspect element” A small window will open with the web page source codes. I will recommend this method for copying a small amount of text, it’s tedious.

Highlight text on a webpage windows#

Viewing page source on chrome browser in windows OS 3.

Once you have access to the code you can easily get the information you want and copy paste as you desire.

However, if the website has disabled right click simply put below on your browser followed by the website/page URL This code can be viewed by right clicking on the website if not disabled and selecting “View source”įor beginners, this will be confusing and overwhelming and you might require basic HTML skills. Websites are written in hypertext markup language (HTML). Disabling javascript on google chrome browser 2. Once done copying don’t forget to activate javascript because some websites like facebook and other heavy rely on JS and disabling it will break these websites. Luckily browsers have a setting where you can either enable or disable JavaScript and in this case disable it, save and reload the page. Personally, I would not advise any of my clients to implement these restrictions on their websites since it only gives your visitors a bad experience.īelow are some of the ways you can copy content from a website that has disabled text selection and/or right-clicking.Īs I mentioned in the beginning most website use JavaScript to disable text selection and right-clicking. The most common way websites use to disable copying and right click involves use of JavaScript, whereas others use simple styling properties to disable text selection. But if you know what you are doing and where to look no such barriers can prevent getting what you want. Over the years website developers have come up with several ways to ‘disable’ copying of information from websites. Since the beginning, the idea of having the internet was as a result of the need to share information freely. “… if it’s online, in one way or another it can be copied”