oncontextmenu event

Fires when the user clicks the right mouse button in the client area, opening the context menu.

Note  Starting with Internet Explorer 11, this event fires a MSPointerEvent object instead of MouseEvent. You can use the MouseEvent.pointerType property to determine the type of contact that the click originated from (touch, mouse, or pen).

 

Syntax

HTML Attribute	<element oncontextmenu = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.oncontextmenu = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("oncontextmenu", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("contextmenu", handler, useCapture)

 

Event information

Synchronous	No
Bubbles	Yes
Cancelable	Yes

 

Event handler parameters

• pEvtObj [in]
  Type: IHTMLEventObj

Standards information

There are no standards that apply here.

Remarks

Opens the context menu. To cancel the default behavior, set the IHTMLEventObj::returnValue property of the event object to false.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

• Right-click the object.

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

• HTMLAnchorEvents2
• HTMLAreaEvents2
• HTMLButtonElementEvents2
• HTMLControlElementEvents2
• HTMLDocumentEvents2
• HTMLElementEvents2
• HTMLFormElementEvents2
• HTMLImgEvents2
• HTMLFrameSiteEvents2
• HTMLInputFileElementEvents2
• HTMLInputImageEvents2
• HTMLInputTextElementEvents2
• HTMLLabelEvents2
• HTMLLinkElementEvents2
• HTMLMapEvents2
• HTMLMarqueeElementEvents2
• HTMLObjectElementEvents2
• HTMLOptionButtonElementEvents2
• HTMLScriptEvents2
• HTMLSelectElementEvents2
• HTMLStyleElementEvents2
• HTMLTableEvents2
• HTMLTextContainerEvents2
• HTMLWindowEvents2