How do I handle right-click events in angular.js?

Question

Is there a way to have an element set up so that it performs one action on left-click (ng-click) and then another action on a right-click?

Right now I have something

Answer 1

Hi this is an old question but I have a solution that I think may be simpler in some cases. The ngMousedown (and ngMouseup) directives are triggered by the right mouse button and have access to the original mouse event through $event so you could do it this way:

<span ng-mousedown="handleClick($event)"
      oncontextmenu="return false">  <!-- use this to prevent context menu -->
          {{getPointsSpent()}}
</span>

Then in the controller, you can do the following:

$scope.handleClick(evt) {
    switch(evt.which) {
        case 1:
            increment(); // this is left click
            break;
        case 2:
            // in case you need some middle click things
            break;
        case 3:
            decrement(); // this is right click
            break;
        default:
            alert("you have a strange mouse!");
            break;
    }
}

Here is a working fiddle. It works the same as the accepted answer but doesn't require the creation of a whole new directive. Although a directive may be a better solution, especially if you plan to attach right-click functions to lots of things. But anyway, another option.

Answer 2

You can use this directive.

<div ng-controller="demoCtrl" save-content="classic-html">
  <div contextmenu="{{lists}}" class="box" click-menu="clickMenu(item)" right-click="rightClick($event)">
    <span>normal dropmenu</span>
  </div>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
angular.module('demo', ['ngContextMenu'])

  .controller('demoCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {
    $scope.lists = [{
      name: '11'
    }, {
      name: '22'
    }]

    $scope.clickMenu = function (item) {
      console.log(item);
    };

    $scope.rightClick = function (event) {
      console.log(event);
    };
  }])
</script>

Answer 3

One way is using a directive that binds an event handler to contextmenu event. I had hard time stopping bubbling to prevent default menu to show up so added native script handler for document. Tried with e.stopPropagation(), e.preventDefault() , return false etc . Checking for target in document handler seems to work well

app.directive('rightClick',function(){
    document.oncontextmenu = function (e) {
       if(e.target.hasAttribute('right-click')) {
           return false;
       }
    };
    return function(scope,el,attrs){
        el.bind('contextmenu',function(e){
            alert(attrs.alert);               
        }) ;
    }
});

<button right-click alert="You right clciked me">Right click me</button>

DEMO http://plnkr.co/edit/k0TF49GVdlhMuioSHW7i

Answer 4

You can use a directive to bind specific action on right click, using the contextmenu event :

app.directive('ngRightClick', function($parse) {
    return function(scope, element, attrs) {
        var fn = $parse(attrs.ngRightClick);
        element.bind('contextmenu', function(event) {
            scope.$apply(function() {
                event.preventDefault();
                fn(scope, {$event:event});
            });
        });
    };
});

Code example on fiddle