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Old 12-11-2003, 12:45 PM  
foolio
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the most needed and under-used HTML tool - the Image toolbar remover!

I think this is THE most important tool that is overlooked when making a page. Most adult sites are just pictures put together to make the page - and I see the stupid image toolbar pop up on sites EVERY DAY. There is no reason to be sloppy - you spend all the time making the site look good, so you should want to have the image toolbar not show up on your site.

So here is the lesson for the day for you adult webmasters out there. Even if your site is already made, all you need to do is add one meta line and it will be fixed - simple as that.......

Here we go:

You may have noticed that whenever your mouse pointer (or mouse cursor) moves over an image that is greater than a certain size on a site, an image toolbar automatically pops up, giving you the option to save that image, resize it, print it, send the picture to someone in an email, etc. Much as this may please some of your visitors, it annoys a number of webmasters who are not thrilled that IE encourages copyright infringement by suggesting that it is acceptable to pilfer pictures on others' websites. If you feel the same way, you may be comforted that it is an easy matter to prevent the toolbar from showing over images on your site.

Disabling the Toolbar for the Entire Page
To disable the image toolbar for a particular page on your website, simply add the following META tag to the HEAD section of your HTML document:

meta hahahahahahahahahaha="imagetoolbar" content="no" /

replace the hahaha with:

h t t p - e q u i v (minus spaces)

The "no" setting disallows the toolbar.

Disabling the Toolbar on an Image by Image Basis
If you only want to prevent the toolbar from appearing for certain graphics on your page, you can disable it on an image by image basis.

For example, if you have a picture called "gfy.gif", you can add a GALLERYIMG attribute to the image tag that you used to display it:

img src="gfy.gif" galleryimg="no" /

The "no" prevents the toolbar from showing. Setting it to "yes" allows the toolbar, and is useful if you have set the entire page to default to not showing the toolbar, and only want to enable it on an image by image basis.


So, now you know - use the damm thing.
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