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 not detected, but right clicks are detected by the document element as 'click' events instead of 'contextmenu' events. I've tried to attach event listeners to mousedown, contextmenu, but to no success.
[EDIT] Changing the code to contextmenu works on chrome but not firefox (v23.0.1), this is probably a firefox bug.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<script type="application/javascript;version=1.8">
function log(s){
document.getElementById('log').innerHTML+=s+'<br/>';
}
window.onload=function(){
document.addEventListener('click',function(e){
log('click detected');
},false);
let link=document.querySelector('a#link');
//click only cares about left clicks
link.addEventListener('click',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
withvar
...Stopping the propagation of a
contextmenu
event triggered froma#Link
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works fine for me, in Chrome and Firefeox, here is the example i used.Edit
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
Now rightclicking in the following order gives us these outputs.
Screenshots are from Firefox 20.0
The 'right click' event is called the 'contextmenu' event.
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/contextmenu.html
Example: