The onmousedown event

One of the questions most frequently asked by new JavaScripters is, “How do I hide my scripts from anyone coming to my page?” The answer is, simply: you can’t. If anyone is determined enough, they can always find out what’s in your code.

If you really need to try to hide your code from average surfers, though, Script 9.9 keeps them from viewing the page source via a mouse-click that would normally bring up the shortcut menu.

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if (typeof document.oncontextmenu == "object") {
  if (document.all) {
     document.onmousedown = captureMousedown;
This first block checks to see if this browser is Firefox, which uses window.oncontextmenu (and so doesn’t know about document.oncontextmenu). If it isn’t Firefox, we next look for document.all ...

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