HTML Standard attribute: contextmenu
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The
HTML contextmenu attribute indicates the context
menu (i.e. what appears when the mouse is right-clicked). At the time of
writing (early 2018) it did not appear to be supported by many browsers.
Valid attribute
values include:
|
Value
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Description
|
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text
|
Text to display when
mouse is right-clicked
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EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<em contextmenu="Additional info">italic text</em>
<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x = document.createElement("EM");
x.textContent = "italic text";
// or use var txt = document.createTextNode("italic text");
// x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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