IE6 'Save Current Picture' icon

get rid of this save or print this picture icon

[orgaseo]

I really don't know how to described it.

I personally use Opera for browsing but most customers use IE6+, of course.

Yesterday I saw on a customers PC a little icon or toolbar coming up while he hold the mouse cursor over a large image. This toy let the user choose to save or even print the current image under the mouse.

Is there a HTTP tag to prevent this? I don't know why but I do not have that unwanted feature on my IE but I think most people have.

[balam]

Welcome aboard, orgaseo...

Here's the meta you're looking for:

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

That takes care of things on the server side... On the client side, to disable the Image Toolbar in IEv6 select:

Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> Enable Image Toolbar (under the Multimedia heading)

(I believe this "feature" is only available in IEv6.)

[orgaseo]

Thanks for the quick answer. Since I use Opera I forgot to think about that in IE ;)

[tedster]

I'd like to elaborate on this a bit, so we have a complete reference here for the many options and combinations that are available:

If you want to turn off Image Toolbar functions for individual pictures on a Web page, use the following <img> syntax for the picture:

<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="no">
-- or --
<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="false">

If you want to turn off Image Toolbar functions for all pictures on a Web page, add the following <meta> syntax to your Web page:

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
-- or --
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="false">

If you have turned off Image Toolbar functions for all pictures on a Web page, then you can enable them for individual pictures by setting the galleryimg attribute to "yes" or "true", using the following <img> syntax:

<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="yes">
-- or --
<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="true">

[orgaseo]

@tedster: Thanks. I just copy and paste it to our knowledgebase. ;)

[Noisehag]

That's awesome! Never occurred to me that it could be removed. Man I love this place... :)

[vkaryl]

Wow. WOW! I knew you could disable the toolbar in the browser but never knew there was a per-image and/or per-page way to do it too.

Thanks tedster!

(You absolutely CAN learn something new here every day!)

[Noisehag]

(You absolutely CAN learn something new here every day!)

Yeah, and at least for me, most of the time there's no need to ask... lol

[balam]

One more item that should be noted...

> <img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="no">

Since the galleryimg attribute is a Microsoft/IE-only extension to the <img> element, this will break page validation if you use it (and care about that sort of thing).

W3C Markup Validation Service [validator.w3.org]