Question

In trying to detect a right mouse click with jquery, I noticed that the click event handler doesn’t seem to be fired off with a right mouse click, while the mousedown or mouseup event handler’s do.

For example, after a right click on the test div, the following alerts ‘testing!’:

$('#test').mousedown(function(e) {
    alert('testing');
});

However, the following does not:

$('#test').click(function(e) {
    alert('testing!');
});

Does anyone know why?

Answer 1

As this article puts it:

There are no click events for right button clicks in any browser.

So you’re left with mousedown and mouseup in most browsers.