How do I stop the propagation for right click events in javascript, so parent elements do not detect them at all? When I click the link in the following html, left clicks are no
The 'right click' event is called the 'contextmenu' event.
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/contextmenu.html
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script>
function log(s){
document.getElementById('log').innerHTML+=s+'<br/>';
}
window.onload=function(){
document.addEventListener('click',function(e){
log('click detected');
},false);
document.addEventListener('contextmenu', function(e){
log('right-click detected');
}, false);
var link=document.querySelector('a#link');
link.addEventListener('click',function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
return false;
},false);
link.addEventListener('contextmenu',function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
return false;
},false);
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a id="link" href="javascript:void(0);">Link</a>
<div id="log"></div>
</body>
</html>
Chrome won't execute script tags, including a version , for some reason, so i replaced let
with var
...
Stopping the propagation of a contextmenu
event triggered from a#Link
to document
works fine for me, in Chrome and Firefeox, here is the example i used.
Edit
the contextmenu events are detected by the document element as click events instead.
In this case you can use a mousedown event, and add the condition event.which === 3
I updated the example, and added an example on JSBin
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<a id="link" href="javascript:void(0);">Link</a>
<div id="log"></div>
<script type="application/javascript">
window.onload = function () {
var link = document.querySelector('a#link');
function log(s) {
document.getElementById('log').innerHTML += s + '<br/>';
}
document.addEventListener('mousedown', function (e) {
if (e.which === 3) {
var src = e.target || e.srcElement;
log((src.nodeName === 'A' ? 'bubbled' : 'direct') + ' contextmenu on document detected');
}
}, false);
link.addEventListener("mousedown", propagate);
function propagate(e) {
if (e.which === 3) {
log("contextmenu on link, propagating");
link.removeEventListener("mousedown", propagate);
link.addEventListener("mousedown", nopropagate);
}
}
function nopropagate(e) {
if (e.which === 3) {
log("contextmenu on link, nopropagating");
e.stopPropagation();
}
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Now rightclicking in the following order gives us these outputs.
Screenshots are from Firefox 20.0