Preventing an image from being draggable or selectable without using JS

Does anyone know of a way to make an image not draggable and not selectable -- at the same time -- in Firefox, without resorting to Javascript? Seems trivial, but here's the issue:

1. Can be dragged and highlighted in Firefox:

   

2. So we add this, but image can still be highlighted while dragging:

   

3. So we add this, to fix the highlighting issue, but then counterintuitively, the image become draggable again. Weird, I know! Using FF 16.0.1

   

So, does anyone know why adding -moz-user-select: none, would somehow trump and disable draggable=false? Of course, webkit works as expected. Nothing is out there on the Interwebs about this...It would be great if we could shine some light on this together.

Edit: This is about keeping UI elements from being inadvertently dragged and improving usability - not some lame attempt at a copy protection scheme.

Set the following CSS properties to the image:

.selector {
    user-drag: none;
    -webkit-user-drag: none;
    user-select: none;
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -ms-user-select: none;
}

I've been forgetting to share my solution, I couldn't find a way to do this without using JS. There are some corner cases where @Jeffery A Wooden's suggested CSS just wont cover.

This is what I apply to all of my UI containers, no need to apply to each element since it recuses on all the child elements.

CSS:

.unselectable {
    /* For Opera and <= IE9, we need to add unselectable="on" attribute onto each element */
    /* Check this site for more details: http://help.dottoro.com/lhwdpnva.php */
    -moz-user-select: none; /* These user-select properties are inheritable, used to prevent text selection */
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -ms-user-select: none; /* From IE10 only */
    user-select: none; /* Not valid CSS yet, as of July 2012 */

    -webkit-user-drag: none; /* Prevents dragging of images/divs etc */
    user-drag: none;
}

JS:

var makeUnselectable = function( $target ) {
    $target
        .addClass( 'unselectable' ) // All these attributes are inheritable
        .attr( 'unselectable', 'on' ) // For IE9 - This property is not inherited, needs to be placed onto everything
        .attr( 'draggable', 'false' ) // For moz and webkit, although Firefox 16 ignores this when -moz-user-select: none; is set, it's like these properties are mutually exclusive, seems to be a bug.
        .on( 'dragstart', function() { return false; } );  // Needed since Firefox 16 seems to ingore the 'draggable' attribute we just applied above when '-moz-user-select: none' is applied to the CSS 

    $target // Apply non-inheritable properties to the child elements
        .find( '*' )
        .attr( 'draggable', 'false' )
        .attr( 'unselectable', 'on' ); 
};

This was way more complicated than it needed to be.

You can use the pointer-events property in your CSS, and set it equal to 'none'

img {
    pointer-events: none;
}

Edited

this will block (click) event. So better solution would be

<img draggable="false" (dragstart)="false;" class="unselectable">

.unselectable {
  user-drag: none; 
  user-select: none;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  -webkit-user-drag: none;
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  -ms-user-select: none;
}

Depending on the situation, it is often helpful to make the image a background image of a div with CSS.

<div id='my-image'></div>

Then in CSS:

#my-image {
    background-image: url('/img/foo.png');
    width: ???px;
    height: ???px;
}

See this JSFiddle for a live example with a button and a different sizing option.

You could probably just resort to

<img src="..." style="pointer-events: none;">

A generic solution especially for Windows Edge browser (as the -ms-user-select: none; CSS rule doesn't work):

window.ondragstart = function() {return false}

Note: This can save you having to add draggable="false" to every img tag when you still need the click event (i.e. you can't use pointer-events: none), but don't want the drag icon image to appear.

I created a div element which has the same size as the image and is positioned on top of the image. Then, the mouse events do not go to the image element.

You could set the image as a background image. Since it resides in a div, and the div is undraggable, the image will be undraggable:

<div style="background-image: url("image.jpg");">
</div>

Here's a four-part solution that should work in nearly every modern browser:

<img src="foobar.jpg" draggable="false" ondragstart="return false;">

img
{
    user-drag: none;
    -webkit-user-drag: none;
    
    user-select: none;
    -moz-user-select: none;
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    -ms-user-select: none;
}

You can remove the bottom four lines of CSS if you want to allow selecting/highlighting.