How can I capture the right-click event in JavaScript?
JavascriptHtmlEventsEvent HandlingDom EventsJavascript Problem Overview
I want to block the standard context menus, and handle the right-click event manually.
How is this done?
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
Use the oncontextmenu event.
Here's an example:
<div oncontextmenu="javascript:alert('success!');return false;">
Lorem Ipsum
</div>
And using event listeners (credit to rampion from [a comment in 2011](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4235426/how-can-i-capture-the-right-click-event-in-javascript/4236294#comment6115096_4236294 "CC BY-SA 2.5")):
el.addEventListener('contextmenu', function(ev) {
ev.preventDefault();
alert('success!');
return false;
}, false);
Don't forget to return false, otherwise the standard context menu will still pop up.
If you are going to use a function you've written rather than javascript:alert("Success!"), remember to return false in BOTH the function AND the oncontextmenu attribute.
Solution 2 - Javascript
I think that you are looking for something like this:
function rightclick() {
var rightclick;
var e = window.event;
if (e.which) rightclick = (e.which == 3);
else if (e.button) rightclick = (e.button == 2);
alert(rightclick); // true or false, you can trap right click here by if comparison
}
(http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_properties.html)
And then use the onmousedown even with the function rightclick() (if you want to use it globally on whole page you can do this <body onmousedown=rightclick(); >