stop image popup toolbar in IE?

[ukr_bend]

I'm trying to find a way to stop the IE6 habit of poping up the
toolbar
banner (save, print,email, open) when the user hovers over an image in
my webpage.
Is there a way to encode this in the html to stop this behaviour?

Thanks for any help

 

[Els]

I'm trying to find a way to stop the IE6 habit of poping up the
toolbar
banner (save, print,email, open) when the user hovers over an image in
my webpage.
Is there a way to encode this in the html to stop this behaviour?

You'll probably get answers like 'don't mess with that, the user can
set their preference in their browser', but just in case you want to
stop it regardless:
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

 

[Jim Higson]

You'll probably get answers like 'don't mess with that, the user can
set their preference in their browser',
but just in case you want to
stop it regardless:
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

Btw, although this is a http-equiv tag, it doesn't work if you set it using
real HTTP headers.

 

[Alan J. Flavell]

Btw, although this is a http-equiv tag,

yeah, but it's not "equiv" to anything that's in HTTP[1]

it doesn't work if you set it using real HTTP headers.

The same, by the way, for "Refresh". There again, it purports to be
"equiv" to something that doesn't really exist in HTTP. And again, IE
doesn't really support it when it's presented as a real HTTP header.
(At least, that's how it behaved when I tried it, a while back - and
when MSIE has dug itself into a "feature", it tends to reproduce it in
later versions too, IME).

[1] The HTTP protocol doesn't actually *rule out* additional headers,
so there's nothing that prevents a body from inventing one if they so
choose.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Btw, although this is a http-equiv tag,

yeah, but it's not "equiv" to anything that's in HTTP[1]

it doesn't work if you set it using real HTTP headers.

The same, by the way, for "Refresh". There again, it purports to be
"equiv" to something that doesn't really exist in HTTP. And again, IE
doesn't really support it when it's presented as a real HTTP header.
(At least, that's how it behaved when I tried it, a while back - and
when MSIE has dug itself into a "feature", it tends to reproduce it in
later versions too, IME).

[1] The HTTP protocol doesn't actually *rule out* additional headers,
so there's nothing that prevents a body from inventing one if they so
choose.

Botton line is it seems to work for IE4-6x. Anything to get rid of that
annoying little menu for folks who insist using IE.

Funny thing though, IE seems to float that menu over some images and not
others. Haven't found a pattern yet, first iimpression seems that larger
images get the menu and smaller ones don't, but cannot confirm. Not high
on my to do list...

 

[Mark Parnell]

I'm trying to find a way to stop the IE6 habit of poping up the
toolbar
banner (save, print,email, open)

Tools>Internet Options>Advanced. Under "Multimedia", untick "Enable
Image Toolbar (requires restart)".

when the user hovers over an image in
my webpage.
Why?

Is there a way to encode this in the html to stop this behaviour?

Els has already given you the code for it, but reconsider your motives
for doing so. It is expected behaviour for your user, and may
confuse/annoy them if it doesn't display.

 

[Arne]

Tools>Internet Options>Advanced. Under "Multimedia", untick "Enable
Image Toolbar (requires restart)".


Els has already given you the code for it, but reconsider your motives
for doing so. It is expected behaviour for your user, and may
confuse/annoy them if it doesn't display.

You assume they don't know how to save, print, email or open anything
without that little "helper"?

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[Mark Parnell]

You assume they don't know how to save, print, email or open anything
without that little "helper"?

Well, they *are* using IE. But no, that's not what I meant. It may
confuse or annoy them, but in most cases I think they will be capable of
doing whatever they want with the image even without the toolbar. So the
OP has achieved nothing anyway, except to frustrate his/her/its users.

 

[Barbara de Zoete]

Well, they *are* using IE. But no, that's not what I meant. It may
confuse or annoy them, but in most cases I think they will be capable of
doing whatever they want with the image even without the toolbar. So the
OP has achieved nothing anyway, except to frustrate his/her/its users.

When I was still using IE as a visitor of websites I never had a clue
where that image toolbar came from. One site had it, the other didn't. I
liked the latter the best and accused (wrongly as I found out later) the
first one of doing something silly to make that thing pop up.


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[Neredbojias]

With neither quill nor qualm, Mark Parnell quothed:

Well, they *are* using IE. But no, that's not what I meant. It may
confuse or annoy them, but in most cases I think they will be capable of
doing whatever they want with the image even without the toolbar. So the
OP has achieved nothing anyway, except to frustrate his/her/its users.

I agree with your conclusion so perhaps the best thing the OP could do
is put a little message on his page explaining the situation for IE
users and providing instructions to disable the damn thing.

When I first saw the "IT", I (luckily) figured there was a setting for
it somewhere, but that isn't obvious.

 

[Toby Inkster]

Funny thing though, IE seems to float that menu over some images and not
others.

It comes up on any images of a size at least 130x130, displayed using the
<IMG> element, unless you're using an image map.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Jonathan N. Little wrote:




It comes up on any images of a size at least 130x130, displayed using the
<IMG> element, unless you're using an image map.

It seems to be size related, just did not have time to fool with it,
thanks.

 

[Roy Schestowitz]

__/ [Arne] on Wednesday 23 November 2005 23:01 \__

You assume they don't know how to save, print, email or open anything
without that little "helper"?

That's what the context menu is for. If one can't handle the alternate mouse
button or the context menu button (reserved on most keyboards), a Mac is
much needed.

Roy

 

[TinasPlaygirlz]

Well i would have thought the obvious reason for doing this is cause no right click code doesnt stop people from getting access to the images???? tell me if there is a better way