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How to re-enable right click so that I can inspect HTML elements in Chrome?

I am looking at a web page which has overwritten the right-click button so to display its own popup HTML element.

This prevents me from using Chrome Developer Tools to inspect elements.

Does anybody know a JavaScript snippet I could inject from the Chrome Console to re-enable the right-click?

I am okay to break the existing 'right-click' functionality, so to be able to inspect the HTML elements easily.

Solution

  • If they have just changed the oncontextmenu handler (which is the most straightforward way to do it), then you can remove their override thus:

    window.oncontextmenu = null;

    Otherwise, if it is attached to individual elements, you can get all the page's elements, and then remove the handler on each one:

    var elements = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for(var id = 0; id < elements.length; ++id) { elements[id].oncontextmenu = null; }

    Or, it seems you can turn off such scripts; via an extension in Chrome or an option in Firefox - in the advanced box for javascript options, switch off 'Disable or replace context menus'.