Disable Right-Clicking In HTML5 Video?

Question

I'm using an HTML5 video player on my website and I want to disable right-clicking on all my videos.

I tried using this code and it doesn't work:

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#videoElementID').bind('contextmenu',function() { return false; });
});
</script>

I'm using WordPress and placed the function above in the header.php file.

How can I check what is the #videoElementID name for my player? I tried with all the DIV elements on the page and it still doesn't work. I know this won't prevent users to download my videos but I really need to make this work.

Answer 1

My favorite method which is quick and easy and does not require javascript is to add the oncontextmenu="return false;" to the video tag.

So something like this:

<video oncontextmenu="return false;" id="my-video-player" width="854" height="480" controls autoplay>
  <source src="https://example.com/link-to-my-video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>

Answer 2

 $(document).ready(function() {
    $("video").bind("contextmenu",function(){
        return false;
        });
 } );

This should disable right click on all the video elements in that page. Hope this helps.