JavaScript/jQuery Context Menu - Basics

The JavaScript 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 JavaScript ContextMenu.

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Backend API

$(() => { $('#context-menu').dxContextMenu({ dataSource: contextMenuItems, width: 200, target: '#image', onItemClick(e) { if (!e.itemData.items) { DevExpress.ui.notify(`The "${e.itemData.text}" item was clicked`, 'success', 1500); } }, }); });

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <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" /> <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery || document.write(decodeURIComponent('%3Cscript src="js/jquery.min.js"%3E%3C/script%3E'))</script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/24.1.6/css/dx.light.css" /> <script src="js/dx.all.js"></script> <script src="data.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <script src="index.js"></script> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <div class="label"> Right click the image to show available actions: </div> <img id="image" alt="product" src="images/products/7.png" /> <div id="context-menu"></div> </div> </body> </html>

#image { height: 300px; } .label { color: #767676; }

const contextMenuItems = [ { text: 'Share', items: [ { text: 'Facebook' }, { text: 'Twitter' }], }, { text: 'Download' }, { text: 'Comment' }, { text: 'Favorite' }, ];