What is the way to trap a right-click event on a document element? I could not find any event handlers anywhere.
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What is the way to trap a right-click event on a document element? I could not find any event handlers anywhere.
Right-click is special on many browsers, triggering the
contextmenuevent rather than aclickevent. Some browsers let you prevent the default behavior, some (Opera, for instance) do not. More here: http://unixpapa.com/js/mouse.htmlEDIT: Rereading that page (it’d been a while), it looks like
mousedownandmouseupare even more reliable thancontextmenu(although all major browsers triggercontextmenu).click, on the other hand, doesn’t appear to happen at all, on any significant browser.