Angular Context Menu - Basics

The ContextMenu component displays a single- or multi-level context menu. An end user invokes this menu by a right click or a long press. This demo illustrates how to create a simple ContextMenu.

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Backend API

<div class="label"> Right click the image to show available actions: </div> <img id="image" alt="product" src="../../../../images/products/7.png" /> <dx-context-menu [dataSource]="items" [width]="200" target="#image" (onItemClick)="itemClick($event)" > </dx-context-menu>

import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser'; import { Component, enableProdMode, provideZoneChangeDetection } from '@angular/core'; import notify from 'devextreme/ui/notify'; import { DxContextMenuModule, type DxContextMenuTypes } from 'devextreme-angular/ui/context-menu'; if (!document.location.host.includes('localhost')) { enableProdMode(); } class ContextMenuItem { text: string; items?: ContextMenuItem[]; } @Component({ selector: 'demo-app', templateUrl: './app.component.html', styleUrls: ['./app.component.css'], imports: [ DxContextMenuModule, ], }) export class AppComponent { items: ContextMenuItem[]; constructor() { this.items = [{ text: 'Share', items: [ { text: 'Facebook' }, { text: 'Twitter' }], }, { text: 'Download' }, { text: 'Comment' }, { text: 'Favorite' }, ]; } itemClick({ itemData }: DxContextMenuTypes.ItemClickEvent<ContextMenuItem>) { if (!itemData.items) { notify(`The "${itemData.text}" item was clicked`, 'success', 1500); } } } bootstrapApplication(AppComponent, { providers: [ provideZoneChangeDetection({ eventCoalescing: true, runCoalescing: true }), ], });

#image { height: 300px; } .label { color: var(--dx-texteditor-color-label); }

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>DevExtreme Demo</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/26.1.5/css/dx.light.css" /> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <demo-app>Loading...</demo-app> </div> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/zone.js@0.16.2/bundles/zone.umd.js"></script> <script src="./bundle.js" type="module"></script> </body> </html>