How to Prevent Text Copying on Your Website [Disable Text Selection]

Hello Blogger!
If you own a blog and you work hard to create high-quality posts, the last thing you want is for someone to copy your content and publish it on their own blog.

I’ve already explained the pros and cons of copying content from other websites in a previous post. If you haven’t read that yet, I highly recommend checking it out.

Why Content Theft Happens

When we write a blog post, we often spend hours researching information from various sources. We then rewrite and refine that content to make it valuable and helpful for our readers.

But some new bloggers — especially those who lack proper knowledge — simply copy content from other blogs and paste it into their own, thinking that having more posts will bring in more traffic and increase income.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.
Copied content not only hurts SEO rankings but can also lead to penalties from search engines like Google.

How to Stop Others from Copying Your Blog Posts

If you’re serious about protecting your content, here are several effective methods to prevent users from copying text or images from your website:

✅ Disable Right Click on Website

This prevents users from accessing the context menu where they might try to copy text or download images.

✅ Disable Text Selection

By disabling text selection, you make it difficult for visitors to highlight and copy any part of your content.

✅ Disable Keyboard Shortcuts like Ctrl+U

This prevents users from viewing your source code using keyboard shortcuts.

✅ Add Credit Links

If someone still copies your content, the embedded credit link will remain — giving you proper attribution.

✅ Show Warning Messages When Copy is Attempted

Use JavaScript to display a warning or alert if someone tries to copy your content.

✅ Add Watermarks to Images

Protect your visual content by watermarking images with your blog name or logo.

✅ Report Copyright Violations to Google

If someone steals your content, you can file a DMCA complaint with Google and request removal of their post or site from search results.

Conclusion: Protect Your Hard Work

If you’ve worked hard to publish a post, you should absolutely protect it from being misused. Taking a few preventive steps can help you safeguard your content, maintain your blog’s credibility, and protect your search engine ranking.

Next Step: How to Disable Text Selection on Your Blog

In the next section/post, we’ll show you step-by-step how to disable text selection using HTML, CSS, or JavaScript — so that no one can easily copy your blog post content.

✅ Why Disable Text Selection on a Blog?

When someone tries to select and copy text from your blog, it usually means they may republish or misuse your content without permission. To avoid this, you can disable the ability to select text completely on your site.

🔧 Step-by-Step: Add CSS to Disable Text Selection

You just need to add a few lines of CSS to your website’s code. Here’s how:

🔒 Basic Code to Disable Text Selection

htmlCopyEdit<style>
body {
  -webkit-user-select: none; /* Chrome/Safari */
  -moz-user-select: none;    /* Firefox */
  -ms-user-select: none;     /* Internet Explorer/Edge */
  -o-user-select: none;
  user-select: none;
}
</style>

📌 Where to Add This Code?

For Blogger: Add this CSS code inside your Theme → Edit HTML → <head> section.
For WordPress: Use a Custom HTML widget, or add the code in your theme’s Custom CSS area (Appearance → Customize → Additional CSS).

Once added, no one will be able to select any text on your entire website.

🎯 Selective Text Copying (For Quotes or Tables)

If you want to disable text selection everywhere except for specific content — like quotes or tables — use the following updated CSS:

htmlCopyEdit<style>
body {
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  -ms-user-select: none;
  -o-user-select: none;
  user-select: none;
}

.post blockquote, table {
  -webkit-user-select: text;
  -moz-user-select: text;
  -ms-user-select: text;
  user-select: text;
}
</style>

This code blocks selection on most of your site but allows selection inside <blockquote> and <table> elements — ideal for sharing quotes or data responsibly.

🚫 Final Thoughts on Content Protection

While disabling text selection can help reduce casual copying, it won’t stop determined users completely. But it does create a barrier that makes it harder to steal your content.

The most important thing is to educate and create awareness — copying someone’s hard work doesn’t lead to real success.

Still, from your end, you should take all necessary steps to protect your content. Adding this CSS is one of the easiest and most effective of them.

🔍 Bonus Tip: Want Even More Protection?

Disable right-click using JavaScript
Add DMCA badges to your site
Watermark your images
Use Google Search Console to report plagiarized content

Would you like the JavaScript to disable right-click as well? I can help with that too!

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