The HTML oncontextmenu event attribute is triggered when the user right clicks on an HTML element to open the context menu in an HTML document.
Syntax
Following is the syntax −
<tagname oncontextmenu=”script”></tagname>
Example
Let us see an example of HTML oncontextmenu event Attribute −
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
color: #000;
height: 100vh;
background-color: #FBAB7E;
background-image: linear-gradient(62deg, #FBAB7E 0%, #F7CE68 100%);
text-align: center;
padding: 20px;
}
.box {
background: #db133a;
width: 140px;
height: 140px;
margin: 1rem auto;
color: #fff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>HTML oncontextmenu Event Attribute Demo</h1>
<p oncontextmenu="get()" class="box"></p>
<p>Now try to right click on above red box to open context menu.</p>
<script>
function get() {
document.body.style.background = "#084C61";
document.body.style.color = '#fff';
}
</script>
</body>
</html>Output
Now try to right click on the red box to observe how oncontextmenu event attribute work.
