disabled printscreen key from keyboard

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How to disabled printscreen key from keyboard

Posted 16-Mar-11 3:23am

Badari Narayana

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Solution 1

Since you tagged it Javascript, I assume this about not-printing web pages, yes?

If so, then open your HTML file, and just before the closing HEAD tag:

  <style type="text/css" media="print">
     body {display:none;} 
  </style>
</HEAD>

It doesn't stop them printing, but all they get is a blank page.
Note: They can still copy an image to the clipboard and print that from a paint program, but AFAIK there is no way to stop that from a web app.

Posted 16-Mar-11 4:13am

OriginalGriff

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Member 10863576 11-Jun-14 4:49am

bawale print disable nhi krna ...........print screen ko rokna hai....Question dhyan se phad

Solution 3

Just in case your problem is not only regarding the web and you would like to kill that key for the computer in which you have your software, then think on a "windows hook" per linux...

Posted 16-Mar-11 7:20am

Joan M

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Yusuf · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-16T05:41:00

Many times we pick a solution and stick out gun to it. Whatever your requirement or situation might be, I would not try to do it for the following reasons.

1. Once you pages are in the public domain, it won't be that hard to break it.
2. You are relying on JavaScript to stop Print Screen key press. How would you prevent copy/paste, saving the page, screen grafting etc which then can be printed?
3. What if I disable JavaScript on my browser, you code won't have much functionality.

If you trying to prevent printing the page, you may as well revisit why you want to do it, and accept the inevitably and just leave it alone. At very best, you can add disclaimer to your page.