Blogspot 101: Keep Your Photos from Opening when People Left-Click on Them

by Revka ~ January 14th, 2009. Filed under: Blogger Tutorials.

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One of my most popular tutorials tells how to disable right-click at your site. However, several people have commented that while right-click is disabled at their Blogger blog, people are still able to left-click their pictures, which opens the picture in its own window from which the visitor can then download (steal) the picture.

I have the solution for your problem.  First, because people have asked, let me state that even if there was a way to do it, you would never want to disable left click.  Without left-click ability, links (including navigation links) would be useless, and you would lose readers faster than you can say boo.

The reason people can left click on your pictures and download the photo that appears that way is because when you upload an image Blogger automatically links your post image so that clicking on it brings up the image by itself.  You can fix this by doing the following for each picture. (I’m sorry there’s not a quick and easy fix that I know of.)

1. After you have uploaded the picture into your post, click on the Edit HTML tab of the writing area.
2. You should see code at the top of the page that looks something like this:
<a href="http://yoursiteurl.com/yourpicture.jpg"><img alt="S7302723" src="http://yoursiteurl.com/yourpicture.jpg" width="184" align="left" border="0" height="244"/></a>
3. Delete the following sections:
<a href="http://yoursiteurl.com/yourpicture.jpg">
and   </a>
Those are the parts that make the image into a link.
4. MAKE SURE you leave the img section:
<img alt="S7302723" src="http://yoursiteurl.com/yourpicture.jpg" width="184" align="left" border="0" height="244"/>
5. Preview your post.  If your image is still there and does not go to a separate page when you click on it, you did everything correctly and can
save your post or continue writing it.

You will have to make changes to each of your already published pictures individually, but if you really don’t want people to be able to bring them up on a separate page, it would be worth it.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments regarding this tutorial. I’d be happy to help you in any way that I can.

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49 comments on “Blogspot 101: Keep Your Photos from Opening when People Left-Click on Them”

  1. lil on said:

    it worked, it worked!! thank you SO MUCH!!

  2. Kushagra on said:

    Really Worth
    Thanks a lot

  3. Mariz on said:

    Thank you so much, your tutorial on disabling right-click/left click on images worked great!

  4. Nicky on said:

    Fan-tas-tic! Thanks!

  5. Jenn on said:

    THANK YOU! I have read lots of how-tos from others and never left a comment but this one was so wonderful I had to say thanks! I have spent a lot of time trying to figure this out! Bless you! :)

  6. Jenn on said:

    P.S. I am now bookmarking your site.

  7. Jessica on said:

    OH!! Thank you soooo much! It’s not that much extra work! And well worth the little bit of time! I’m soooo happy! THANK YOU THANK YOU!

  8. Keep On Smiling Photography on said:

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! Great tips for a new blogger! Agreed, this site is very helpful! Thanks again for your time!

  9. Golden on said:

    Oh my gosh, this is really helpful. I greatly appreciate this. Thank you so much!

    Have a nice day!
    .-= Golden´s last blog ..Exactly Red =-.

  10. megank on said:

    I found your blog through google. I found a blog the other day and the lady gave a code to block ‘right clickers.’ So I blogged about it and gave the code. Because people are smarter than I, it was pointed out that there are ‘left clickers.’ I was unaware of those folks.

    Anyways, I found your blog and I linked yours to mine so people can eliminate left clickers! Thanks for your helpful info.
    .-= megank´s last blog ..Protect Your Pics UPDATE =-.

  11. Aubrie on said:

    Thank you! This works! I’m bookmarking your site now.

  12. Triz on said:

    Awesome! Thanks!

  13. Trishia Jacobs on said:

    You are a saint. Merci beaucoup!
    Trishia
    .-= Trishia Jacobs´s last blog ..Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks =-.

  14. Christine on said:

    Thanks so much!
    .-= Christine´s last blog ..Holman’s – Pacific Grove, California =-.

  15. Jihan S. on said:

    Thank you. :) I got the part about removing the href code while editing the post, but in Blogger, how do you keep the link code from even appearing in the first place? Do I have to edit the Blogger template in some way?

  16. ET on said:

    The better way out then editing the HTML is that you can:
    1) Upload Picture
    2) Click on the LINK icon on the Editor
    3) Hit ENTER
    4) Tadaaa… no more link to the picture

    I really try to find out a way to permanently Disable the link (not to insert a link when uploading picture) but I believe that there is no way out because it is being added by the EDITOR not built in the Template.

    If anyone figure a way to this, please share..
    .-= ET´s last blog ..HP® Pavilion® Slimline s5160f Desktop =-.

  17. AzothAal on said:

    Hey… That worked out great… But i’ve tried something and the images can still be stolen…
    I restored my windows size and tried to “force-dragged” the images to my desktop… And the image was copied over…
    I guess there’s really no bulletproof way to stop image thievery but still… I Thank You…

  18. VISHAL on said:

    If I want to copy any picture then I can easily copy it using page info or using the source code…

    anyways nice tutorial….
    .-= VISHAL´s last blog ..IPL 2010 Schedule – Timetable & Fixtures for IPL T20 Cricket =-.

  19. Ruby on said:

    Thank you so much for this!! Very appreciated.

  20. Debra Heschl on said:

    hank you so much…woohoo! It works & I am so HAPPY!!!! :0)

  21. Debra Heschl on said:

    I meant “Thank”..lol
    excuse the typo:)

  22. Tina V. on said:

    Thanks!!!

  23. Itzel on said:

    IM SO HAPPY IT WORKS!!! THANKS!!!

  24. C on said:

    This doesnt work at all. I dont know if I am doing this wrong. But I NEED help!!

  25. Janelle on said:

    THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU SOOOOOO MUCH. I have searched for days and days on how to only disable left click on my posts, not my headers. And your simple little idea has done that for me. Thankyou so very much.
    A tip might be that: I could not delete the whole code, i had to leave this in:
    <img (So I only deleted the address of where the image came from and nothing else in the code)
    that way I am only taking out the address, nothing else, and now noone knows where the image came from.
    I figure once I have done this a couple of times it will become second nature.
    Again, THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU for saving my website. You are a star.

  27. Silly Connie on said:

    thanks

  28. MadMikkie on said:

    Thanks – will give your disable right click a go…..SO MANY PAGES TO DO! I think I’me going to be mad by the time I finish,

  29. Imelda on said:

    Hi… your tutorial is great. done it in my blog page however tried on the other section of a page but was unsuccessful. Please advice how to disable left click on an image of a page

  30. Daniella on said:

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This will stop a lot of tumblrs linking to the new window that opens and not my actual blog address. Thank you!!!

  31. nadia on said:

    wow!!that’s great and it’s really work well! thanks!..:)

  32. Kel on said:

    Thank you – this really worked. Much appreciated. K :)

  33. Kelli on said:

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!

  34. Jens on said:

    THX Revka.

    Totally cool.
    Short, fast and effective help.

    Greetings from Basel, Switzerland

  35. SV on said:

    Hey Thanks a million.
    This Tutorial worked for me.
    May God bless you!

  36. Jared on said:

    Unfortunately, you can still click and drag the photo to your desktop – at least, it works for me. Any solutions to stopping that?

  37. Jocelyn on said:

    Thanks so much – this worked perfectly! Having had an image stolen and used to in an ad to sell a stamp, I am glad to have these little extra things I can do my Blog to help.

  38. Betty on said:

    thank you so much! This worked :D

  39. Elizabeth on said:

    Hey im having a problem if you click on my link and look in the right hand corner and click on order here when you go to my images it has the feat. no to left click or right click but by the image it has that funny looking code. please email me to tell me what i need to do have to have done before sunday june 5 2011. But anyways here is my code i have on there

    Wedding Event Mr. and Mrs Roberson

    imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”>

  40. Elizabeth on said:

    Wedding Event Mr. and Mrs Roberson

    imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”>

  41. melody on said:

    It didn’t work for me, maybe I’m doing it wrong..

  42. Amber on said:

    Thanks for the tutorial it worked well for me!! I was wondering whether you knew how to make an image the page tab? Like in http://www.llymlrs.com ??

  43. Lily on said:

    Thanks for this tip! Although sometimes it is okay with me that they can left-click the pictures, if I can only give them a bigger view. Additional tips?

    Wholesale Beads

  44. uya on said:

    but this doesn’t work when i want to put my photo beside the text. the photo returns to having a hyperlink

  45. T on said:

    Hi, do you know how to enable right clicks fully in ones’ blog?

  46. Elaine on said:

    I am having the same problem as Elizabeth on June 3 2011. The code she indicated is visible next to the picture. How do I get rid of it? Thank you.

  47. sofia on said:

    Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!! This was incredible and totally helped protect some very delicate property of mine!!!

  48. vibhor on said:

    Hey thanks mate for such a great compilation. I was searching this on web from last few days but din’t get it. Finally you solved my problem.
    Keep it up!

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