How to disable copy paste,spellcheck,autocomplete in Cordova Android application? At time text typed by user gets autocompleted.
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there are some css rules you can add to disable copying text -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/826782/css-rule-to-disable-text-selection-highlighting – Tasos Sep 21 '15 at 06:42
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@MuhammadUsman - I have tried restricting it by using jQuery 'paste' and trimming extra characters but a lot of manipulation is required as I have to validate lot of characters. It's a banking app. Passing any invalid data means dirty payload hence server rejects it completely – nickalchemist Sep 21 '15 at 07:02
5 Answers
$('input').bind("contextmenu", function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
});
Please try this code if not use contextmenu functionality in your app otherwise contextmenu functionality will be stop working

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**Use below code:**
<style type="text/css">
*:not(input):not(textarea) {
-webkit-user-select: none; /* disable selection/Copy of UIWebView */
-webkit-touch-callout: none; /* disable the IOS popup when long-press on a link */
}
</style>
**If you want Disable only anchor button tag use this.**
a {-webkit-user-select: none; /* disable selection/Copy of UIWebView */
-webkit-touch-callout: none; /* disable the IOS popup when long-press on a link */
}

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What @Tasos says in his comment is valid, if you want all user selection disabled in the app you can use the answer from this question: Disabling text selection in PhoneGap
I looked all over for help on this. This finally worked for me.
public class MainActivity extends DroidGap { @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html"); super.appView.setOnLongClickListener(new View.OnLongClickListener() { public boolean onLongClick(View v) { return true; } }); } }
The setOnClickListener is what does the magic. Make sure you put this AFTER your call to super.loadUrl.

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I don't have idea about Javascript and Cordova but in Android code you can try this.
Required API level 11 or above.
edittext.setCustomSelectionActionModeCallback(new ActionMode.Callback() {
public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
return false;
}
public void onDestroyActionMode(ActionMode mode) {
}
public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) {
return false;
}
public boolean onActionItemClicked(ActionMode mode, MenuItem item) {
return false;
}
});
Returning false from onCreateActionMode(ActionMode, Menu) will prevent the action mode from being started(Select All, Cut, Copy and Paste actions).

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So, i don't know, if your suggested answers are working. He wanted to know, how he can deactivate this inside a Cordova application. For what did you post native code than?
Normal input
field without deactivation would look like this:
<input id="username" type="text" placeholder="Username">
To deactivate those things, just edit it, that it looks like this:
<input id="username" type="text" placeholder="Username" autocomplete="off" autocorrect="off" autocapitalize="off" spellcheck="false">
Hope that helped!

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