contextmenu

The contextmenu global attribute is the id of an <menu> to us as the contextual menu for this element.

A context menu is a menu that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click. HTML5 now allows us to customize this menu. Here are some implementation examples, including nested menus.

Example

The following HTML...

<body contextmenu="share">
  <menu type="context" id="share">
    <menu label="share">
      <menuitem label="Twitter" onclick="window.open('https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Hurray! I am learning ContextMenu from MDN via Mozilla');"></menuitem>
      <menuitem label="Facebook" onclick="window.open('https://facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/Using_HTML_context_menus');"></menuitem>
    </menu>
  </menu>
  <ol>
    <li>Anywhere in the example you can share the page on Twitter and Facebook using the Share menu from your context menu.</li>
    <li><pre contextmenu="changeFont" id="fontSizing">On this specific list element, you can change the size of the text by using the "Increase/Decrease font" actions from your context menu</pre></li>
    <menu type="context" id="changeFont">
      <menuitem label="Increase Font" onclick="incFont()"></menuitem>
      <menuitem label="Decrease Font" onclick="decFont()"></menuitem>
    </menu>
    <li contextmenu="ChangeImage" id="changeImage">On the image below, you can fire the "Change Image" action in your Context Menu.</li><br />
    <img src="https://developer.mozilla.org/media/img/promote/promobutton_mdn5.png" contextmenu="ChangeImage" id="promoButton" />
    <menu type="context" id="ChangeImage">
      <menuitem label="Change Image" onclick="changeImage()"></menuitem>
    </menu>
  </ol>
</body>

...used with this JavaScript...

function incFont(){
  document.getElementById("fontSizing").style.fontSize="larger";
}
function decFont(){
  document.getElementById("fontSizing").style.fontSize="smaller";
}
function changeImage(){
  var j = Math.ceil((Math.random()*39)+1);
  document.images[0].src="https://developer.mozilla.org/media/img/promote/promobutton_mdn" + j + ".png";
}

...will result in:

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WHATWG HTML Living Standard The definition of 'contextmenu' in that specification.	Living Standard	No change from latest snapshot, HTML5.1
HTML5.1 The definition of 'contextmenu' in that specification.	Working Draft	Snapshot of WHATWG HTML Living Standard, initial definition.

Feature	Chrome	Firefox (Gecko)	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	Not supported	9 (9)	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported

contextmenu

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