Vanilla Context Menu

vanilla-context-menu - easily create context-menus using Vanilla JavaScript and integrate them in any web application

Installation

Browser CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/vanilla-context-menu@1.4.1/dist/vanilla-context-menu.js"></script>

Where @1.4.1 is the version that you want to use.

Then anywhere in your JavaScript code you can access the library with window.VanillaContextMenu or simply VanillaContextMenu.

Via NPM

npm i vanilla-context-menu

Then anywhere in your code.

import VanillaContextMenu from 'vanilla-context-menu';

How to use it

new VanillaContextMenu({
  scope: document.querySelector('main'),
  menuItems: [
    {
      label: 'Copy',
      callback: () => {
        // your code here
      },
    },
    'hr',
    {
      label: 'Paste',
      callback: pasteFunction,
    },
    {
      label: 'Cut',
      callback: pasteFunction,
      iconClass: 'fa fa-scissors', // this only works if you have FontAwesome icons
    },
    { label: 'Face', iconHTML: `<span class="material-icons">face</span>` // this only works if you have Google Material Icons icons },
  ],
});

Configuration options

VanillaContextMenu(configurableOptions: ConfigurableOptions):VanillaContextMenu

ConfigurableOptions

Option	Required	Type	Default	Description
scope	yes	HTMLElement	undefined	The HTML element on which you want to bind the contextmenu event listener.
menuItems	yes	MenuItem[]	undefined	Menu items to be built.
customClass	no	string	undefined	A custom CSS class that can be added to the context menu
customThemeClass	no	string	undefined	A custom CSS class that can be added to the context menu theme. A value for this property will exclude the theme option.
preventCloseOnClick	no	boolean	false	If this variable is true, then the context menu will not close when its elements are clicked.
transitionDuration	no	number	200	Duration of the context menu transition. Set this value to 0 if you want to disable the animation.
theme	no	'black' | 'white'	black	By default, the library provides two themes for the context menu: black and white. You can use this option to choose the one you want to use.
normalizePosition	no	boolean	true	If true, the position of the contextmenu is bound to the scope. Otherwise the left top corner of the contextmenu is bound to the mouse position.

MenuItem

type MenuItem = MenuOption | 'hr';

MenuOption

Option	Required	Type	Default	Description
label	yes	string	undefined	Menu option label.
iconClass	no	string	undefined	This property can be used to display an optional icon. It presents the CSS classes that will be added for the <i></i> tag.
iconHTML	no	string	undefined	This property can be used to display an optional icon. It presents an HTML string that will be sanitized internally using DOMPurify.
callback	no	(ev:MouseEvent) => any	undefined	Callback to be executed. The parameter ev is the MouseEvent that occurred when the contextmenu event was triggered
preventCloseOnClick	no	boolean	false	If this variable is true, then the context menu will not close when this menu option is clicked. A value set for this option, either true or false will override the global one.
nestedMenu	no	NestedMenuItem[]	undefined	Nested menu to be built.

NestedMenuItem

export type NestedMenuItem = BaseMenuOption | 'hr';
export interface BaseMenuOption {
  label: string;
  callback?: (ev: MouseEvent) => unknown;
  iconClass?: string;
  iconHTML?: string;
  preventCloseOnClick?: boolean;
}

API ₍₃₎

The following methods and properties are available through the class instance.

const myContextMenu = new VanillaContextMenu(...)

(1)

off(): void

This method will remove all event listeners that have been registered for the context-menu.

! It should be called when you want to deactivate the context menu or when the container item has been removed from the DOM.

(2)

updateOptions(configurableOptions: Partial<ConfigurableOptions>): void

(3)

close(): void

This method closes the context-menu.

Examples

Define your own theme

.context-menu-orange-theme {
  background: #d35400;

  hr {
    background-color: #eee;
  }

  // text color for each item
  & > *:not(hr) {
    color: #eee;

    &:hover {
      background: #e67e22;
    }
  }
}

Define your own CSS class for styling

.custom-context-menu-cls {
  width: 100px !important;
  font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif; /* DEFAULT -- font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; */
}

const myContextMenu = new window.VanillaContextMenu({
  scope: ...,
  menuItems: [...],
  customThemeClass: 'context-menu-orange-theme',
  customClass: 'custom-context-menu-cls',
});

Add icons for your menu itmes

Firstly you need to add an icon library inside your application and then you can use the iconClass property to specify the CSS classes that will be added for the <i></i> tag.

The following example will add a FontAwesome scissors icon near the menu option Cut.

new VanillaContextMenu({
  scope: document.querySelector('main'),
  menuItems: [
    {
      label: 'Cut',
      callback: pasteFunction,
      iconClass: 'fa fa-scissors', // this only works if you have FontAwesome icons
    },
  ],
});

You can check the demo file for more examples from demo/index.html.

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. Please check the guidelines.

Changelog

For project updates you can also reference the changelog.

Stay in touch

Discussions page

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License