How to disable left mouse button click?

[Draug]

Hi,

Using IE5+, I am attempting to disable the left mouse button across the whole page.

I thought that having the code below would work. I know that the function is called when I left click and the onMouseDown event is raised. But, if I click on a button or element of the page that has an onClick event, the mouse press still occurs. Is there a way that I can intercept the onMouseDown event and cancell it, so that a complete click never occurs?

document.onMouseDown = myFunction();
myFunction ()
{
if (event.button == 1)
{
event.cancelBubble = true;
event.returnValue = false;
return false;
}
}


Thanks, I am grateful for any ideas!
Draug

 

[Omicron]

Hi Draug,
Ok...here is "No Left Clicking"

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;javascript&quot;>

function click() {
if (event.button==1) {
alert('No clicking!')
}
}
document.onMouseDown=click

</SCRIPT>

If you replace the '1' in the script with a 2, you'll have no RIGHT clicking ability. And if you change that line to read:

if (event.button==1 || event.button==2)

you'll have NO clicking at all!
Enjoy!
- Omicron -

 

[baad]

hi
Draug, why don't you want to use onclick then? Victor

 

[Draug]

Omicron,
Is there anyway to do that without having the alert? So far, I have not found a way to do it.

Vituz,
I dont use the onClick because I only want to prevent the left click for a portion of time. To be specific, I want to stop clicks while my application does some lengthy executions of servlets (I also change the cursor to busy at that time across the whole page). I am attempting to mimic the user interaction that would occur with a desktop application. I have some ideas to try with the onClick, and will try those today.

Thanks for taking the time to respond guys. Hopefully someone has some more ideas.

Draug