Hide URL from move-over or tagline

  • Ian MP

    (@ianmp)


    4 years ago

    As I’ve already described in a review here, this is a fantastic product and does exactly what I want – to display HTML5 based training pages in a lightbox.

    Just one problem: when you mouse-over a button, link or image with the Easy FancyBox link, the URL is displayed at the bottom of the screen. If a user copies this, they can access the courses directly, outside of a paid subscription. Is there a way to hide the url from displaying?

    The url is NOT visible when the lightbox is active, only when you mouse-over the link to the lightbox.

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  • Hi @ianmp, I’m afraid there is not much that can be done against that. The showing of a link’s href is a browser thing which cannot be prevented, except by moving the href to a javascript onclick event or converting the link to a button tag. But this will break the light box effect :/

    If you absolutely need to hide the URL (which technically is not possible because anyone can always check the html source code) then you’d have to build something specially for that. Like a custom script that will hide the href on page load but put it back into place on click…

    Or find a way to prevent access to the training pages except when embedded in your site. With Access-Control-Allow-Origin: "your_site_url" in the response header and then a “reverse-frame-breaker-script” in the training pages…

    But this is all too complicated and well out of the scope of this plugin. Sorry.

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