Disabling right click context menu on a HTML Canvas?

Question

Making a painting app using HTML5 and Canvas.

I think I want to have a similar system to applications like Paint and Photoshop where you can have a primary and secondary

Answer 1

Try adding oncontextmenu="return false;" on the body tag. It should disable the context menu.

If I believe this source : http://javascript.about.com/library/blnoright.htm which is google's first result to the query "javascript disable right click" that you should have tried.

Edit :

• about canvas I don't know the element, but did you try calling stopPropagation() on the event element once your function ends ?
• or the previous solution on the canvas tag instead of the body...