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oncontextmenu event

[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]

Fires when the user clicks the right mouse button in the client area, opening the context menu.

HTML Attribute	<element oncontextmenu = "handler(event)">
Event Property	object.oncontextmenu = handler;
attachEvent Method	object.attachEvent("oncontextmenu", handler)
addEventListener Method	object.addEventListener("contextmenu", handler, useCapture)

There are no standards that apply here.

Opens the context menu. To cancel the default behavior, set the returnValue property of the event object to false.

To invoke this event, do one of the following:

The pEvtObj parameter is required for the following interfaces:

Build date: 3/8/2012

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