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.