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How do I hide javascript code in a webpage?

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How do you hide the source code of a website?

JavaScript Encryption This is by far the most popular way to try to hide one's source code. It involves taking your code, using a custom made function to “encrypt” it somehow, and then putting it in an HTML file along with a function that will decrypt it for the browser.

How do I enclose JavaScript in HTML?

I.</script> tag of the HTML that wrap around JavaScript code inside the HTML program. Users can also define JavaScript code in the <body> tag (or we can say body section) or <head> tag because it completely depends on the structure of the web page that the users use.


I'm not sure anyone else actually addressed your question directly which is code being viewed from the browser's View Source command.

As other have said, there is no way to protect javascript intended to run in a browser from a determined viewer. If the browser can run it, then any determined person can view/run it also.

But, if you put your javascript in an external javascript file that is included with:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://mydomain.com/xxxx.js"></script>

tags, then the javascript code won't be immediately visible with the View Source command - only the script tag itself will be visible that way. That doesn't mean that someone can't just load that external javascript file to see it, but you did ask how to keep it out of the browser's View Source command and this will do it.

If you wanted to really make it more work to view the source, you would do all of the following:

  1. Put it in an external .js file.
  2. Obfuscate the file so that most native variable names are replaced with short versions, so that all unneeded whitespace is removed, so it can't be read without further processing, etc...
  3. Dynamically include the .js file by programmatically adding script tags (like Google Analytics does). This will make it even more difficult to get to the source code from the View Source command as there will be no easy link to click on there.
  4. Put as much interesting logic that you want to protect on the server that you retrieve via ajax calls rather than do local processing.

With all that said, I think you should focus on performance, reliability and making your app great. If you absolutely have to protect some algorithm, put it on the server, but other than that, compete on being the best at you do, not by having secrets. That's ultimately how success works on the web anyway.


No, it isn't possible.

If you don't give it to the browser, then the browser doesn't have it.

If you do, then it (or an easily followed reference to it) forms part of the source.


My solution is inspired from the last comment. This is the code of invisible.html

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="invisible_debut.js" ></script>
<body>
</body>

The clear code of invisible_debut.js is:

$(document).ready(function () {
var ga = document.createElement("script"); //ga is to remember Google Analytics ;-)
ga.type = 'text/javascript';
ga.src = 'invisible.js';
ga.id = 'invisible';
document.body.appendChild(ga);
$('#invisible').remove();});

Notice that at the end I'm removing the created script. invisible.js is:

$(document).ready(function(){
    alert('try to find in the source the js script which did this alert!');
    document.write('It disappeared, my dear!');});

invisible.js doesn't appear in the console, because it has been removed and never in the source code because created by javascript.

Concerning invisible_debut.js, I obfuscated it, which means that it is very complicated to find the url of invisible.js. Not perfect, but enought hard for a normal hacker.


Use Html Encrypter The part of the Head which has

<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/css.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="script/js.js" language="javascript"></script>

copy and paste it to HTML Encrypter and the Result will goes like this
and paste it the location where you cut the above sample

<Script Language='Javascript'>
<!-- HTML Encryption provided by iWEBTOOL.com -->
<!--
document.write(unescape('%3C%6C%69%6E%6B%20%72%65%6C%3D%22%73%74%79%6C%65%73%68%65%65%74%22%20%68%72%65%66%3D%22%73%74%79%6C%65%73%2F%63%73%73%2E%63%73%73%22%20%74%79%70%65%3D%22%74%65%78%74%2F%63%73%73%22%20%6D%65%64%69%61%3D%22%73%63%72%65%65%6E%22%20%2F%3E%0A%3C%73%63%72%69%70%74%20%74%79%70%65%3D%22%74%65%78%74%2F%6A%61%76%61%73%63%72%69%70%74%22%20%73%72%63%3D%22%73%63%72%69%70%74%2F%6A%73%2E%6A%73%22%20%6C%61%6E%67%75%61%67%65%3D%22%6A%61%76%61%73%63%72%69%70%74%22%3E%3C%2F%73%63%72%69%70%74%3E%0A'));
//-->

HTML ENCRYPTER Note: if you have a java script in your page try to export to .js file and make it like as the example above.

And Also this Encrypter is not always working in some code that will make ur website messed up... Select the best part you want to hide like for example in <form> </form>

This can be reverse by advance user but not all noob like me knows it.

Hope this will help


'Is not possible!'

Oh yes it is ....

//------------------------------
function unloadJS(scriptName) {
  var head = document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0);
  var js = document.getElementById(scriptName);
  js.parentNode.removeChild(js);
}


//----------------------
function unloadAllJS() {
  var jsArray = new Array();
  jsArray = document.getElementsByTagName('script');
  for (i = 0; i < jsArray.length; i++){
    if (jsArray[i].id){
      unloadJS(jsArray[i].id)
    }else{
      jsArray[i].parentNode.removeChild(jsArray[i]);
    }
  }      
}

I'm not sure there's a way to hide that information. No matter what you do to obfuscate or hide whatever you're doing in JavaScript, it still comes down to the fact that your browser needs to load it in order to use it. Modern browsers have web debugging/analysis tools out of the box that make extracting and viewing scripts trivial (just hit F12 in Chrome, for example).

If you're worried about exposing some kind of trade secret or algorithm, then your only recourse is to encapsulate that logic in a web service call and have your page invoke that functionality via AJAX.