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Demo
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Inside HTML file under <body> tag write
h1 class="text">right click</h1>
<div class="options">
<h1 class="title">pages</h1>
<hr>
<ul class="link-container">
<li class="link-item">
<a href="#" class="link">home</a>
</li>
<li class="link-item">
<a href="#" class="link">projects</a>
</li>
<li class="link-item">
<a href="#" class="link">about us</a>
</li>
<li class="link-item">
<a href="#" class="link">contact us</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS
*{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body{
width: 100%;
min-height: 100vh;
background: #ffa462;
font-family: roboto, sans-serif;
display: flex;
place-items: center;
}
.text{
text-transform: uppercase;
font-size: 250px;
text-align: center;
color: #000;
opacity: .25;
user-select: none;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
.options{
width: 200px;
height: 250px;
background: #ebebeb;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
border-radius: 10px;
padding: 20px 0;
border: 2px solid #f0efef;
box-shadow: 0 20px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);
user-select: none;
display: none;
}
.title{
padding: 0 20px;
font-weight: 400;
text-transform: capitalize;
color: #565656;
font-size: 25px;
opacity: .7;
}
.options hr{
padding: 0 20px;
opacity: .1;
border: .5px solid #000;
border-radius: 10px;
margin: 10px;
}
.link-item{
list-style: none;
width: 100%;
height: 30px;
margin: 2px 0;
line-height: 30px;
display: flex;
}
.link{
color: #969696;
font-weight: 300;
text-transform: capitalize;
text-decoration: none;
width: 100%;
padding: 0 20px;
}
.link:hover{
background-color: #fff;
}
And last little bit of JS.
const options = document.querySelector('.options');
window.oncontextmenu = (e) => {
e.preventDefault();
if(e.y + 250 <= window.innerHeight){
options.style.top = `${e.y}px`;
} else{
options.style.top = `${e.y - 250}px`;
}
if(e.x + 200 <= window.innerWidth){
options.style.left = `${e.x}px`;
} else{
options.style.left = `${e.x - 200}px`;
}
options.style.display = 'block';
}
window.onclick = () => {
if(options.style.display === 'block'){
options.style.display = null;
}
}
I hope you understood everything. If you have any doubt or you find any mistake that I made or you have any suggestion feel free to ask me in comment.
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Top comments (3)
You shouldn't be replacing the normal context menu unless there is a very good reason for doing so (perhaps something like a text formatting contextual menu in Google Docs). There is an expectation from users about what a right-click (or whatever gesture they used to invoke the context menu) should do. Weird, non-standard stuff like a page navigation really should not be here - it will only serve to annoy and confuse the user.
That said, there's nothing technically wrong here - you might just want to revise your example with a better UI use case.
There's a missing < at the beginning of the HTML snippet!
Hmm, maybe it would be nice if you could explain what the JavaScript does? And maybe some of the CSS properties like user-select. Thanks for your time!