JavaScript Context Menu - A Simple & Flexible HTML5 Right Click Menu

Overview

The HTML5/JavaScript Context Menu or right-click menu is a graphical user interface control that appears when the user right-clicks or performs a touch and hold action. You can define the list of items the context menu will contain, create multilevel menus, and attach event handlers to the menu items for seamless integration with other controls.

Multi-level nesting

Multi-level nested items are supported in context menu. You can browse the sub menu by mouse hover/click in menu items. The appearance of context menu varies for desktop and mobile. In Mobile, users can view Multilevel nested items in single layer with provision to backtrack parent item.

• Multi level Context Menu documentation

Other supported frameworks

The Context Menu component is also available in Blazor, React, Angular, and Vue frameworks. Check out the different Context Menu platforms from the links below,

• Blazor Context Menu

• React Context Menu

• Angular Context Menu

• Vue Context Menu

Built-in themes

Javascript Context Menu supports built-in themes such as Bootstrap 5, Tailwind CSS, Fluent, high contrast, and more. Users can customize these built-in themes or create new themes to achieve the desired look and feel either by simply overriding SASS variables or using the Theme Studio application.

• Theme Studio Application

Web Accessibility

• Fully supports WAI-ARIA for working with screen readers and assistive devices.
• Follows WAI-ARIA best practices for implementing keyboard interaction.
• Based on WCAG 2.0 standards, we designed the UI element visuals such as foreground color, background color, line spacing, text, and images.
• Supports right-to-left (RTL) text direction for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.

JavaScript Context Menu Code Example

Easily get started with the JavaScript Context Menu using a few simple lines of HTML and TS code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our JavaScript Context Menu Example that shows you how to render and configure a Context Menu in JavaScript.

<div class="control-section">
    <div class="content-wrapper">
        <!--target element-->
        <div id="target">Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
        <!--element which is going to render-->
        <ul id="contextmenu"></ul>
    </div>
</div>

import { ContextMenu, MenuItemModel, ContextMenuModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-navigations';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

enableRipple(true);

let menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
{
    text: 'Cut'
},
{
    text: 'Copy'
},
{
    text: 'Paste'
}];
let menuOptions: ContextMenuModel = {
    target: '#target',
    items: menuItems
};

// Initialize ContextMenu component.
let menuObj: ContextMenu = new ContextMenu(menuOptions, '#contextmenu')