# Right Click:  Enable for Web Pages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 9, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548 "2003-09-09T16:09:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548/1 "2003-09-09T16:09:34Z")

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Does anyone know of a way to enable right clicking (alternate context menu) on websites that have disabled the feature? One technique was to left click and hold, right click then release the left click. This works sometimes, but not always. It also tends to cause the page to reload sometimes. Other than hitting ctrl-n to start up a new page and go from there, or loading the source code into notepad, is there an easier way to enable the right click when its been disabled?

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**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548/2 "2003-09-09T16:19:18Z")

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I believe you can tab to the desired item and hit **Shift-F10** on your keyboard. Disabling Javascript also works, though it may break other features on the page.

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548/3 "2003-09-09T17:06:24Z")

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This is what I do:

Right-click, and keep the right button depressed. The “Sorry, I have lame Javascript enabled” dialogue box will come up. While still keeping the right button held, hit the space bar to get rid of the box. Then release the right button, and hey presto, there is your right-click menu.

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**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548/4 "2003-09-09T18:04:06Z")

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Nice tips guys, I’m going to give them a try right now.

-5 minutes later-

Success with your tip **r\_k** , works like a charm, thanks guys!

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**Author:** ![Hauky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/0ea827/32.png) [@Hauky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hauky)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548/5 "2003-09-09T18:38:20Z")

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I thought I was the only one who knew r\_k’s method. Now I don’t feel _quite_ as smart. 😛

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-click-enable-for-web-pages/200548/6 "2003-09-09T18:54:07Z")

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Dumb ol’ me just used to saved the whole web page as a file.

Eh, it worked.