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---
title: contextmenu
slug: Web/HTML/Global_attributes/contextmenu
page-type: html-attribute
status:
  - deprecated
  - non-standard
browser-compat: html.global_attributes.contextmenu
---

{{HTMLSidebar("Global_attributes")}}{{Deprecated_Header}}{{Non-standard_header}}

The contextmenu global attribute is the id of a {{HTMLElement("menu")}} to use as the contextual menu for this element.

A context menu is a menu that appears upon user interaction, such as a right-click. HTML now allows us to customize this menu. Here are some implementation examples, including nested menus.

Example

HTML

<body contextmenu="share">
  <menu type="context" id="share">
    <menu label="share">
      <menuitem label="Twitter" onclick="shareViaTwitter()"></menuitem>
      <menuitem label="Facebook" onclick="shareViaFacebook()"></menuitem>
    </menu>
  </menu>
  <ol>
    <li>
      Anywhere in the example you can share the page on Twitter and Facebook
      using the Share menu from your context menu.
    </li>
    <li contextmenu="changeFont" id="fontSizing">
      On this specific list element, you can change the size of the text by
      using the "Increase/Decrease font" actions from your context menu
    </li>
    <menu type="context" id="changeFont">
      <menuitem label="Increase Font" onclick="incFont()"></menuitem>
      <menuitem label="Decrease Font" onclick="decFont()"></menuitem>
    </menu>
    <li contextmenu="ChangeImage" id="changeImage">
      On the image below, you can fire the "Change Image" action in your Context
      Menu.<br />
      <img
        src="promobutton_mdn5.png"
        contextmenu="ChangeImage"
        id="promoButton"
        alt="Better CSS Docs for a better web" />
      <menu type="context" id="ChangeImage">
        <menuitem label="Change Image" onclick="changeImage()"></menuitem>
      </menu>
    </li>
  </ol>
</body>

JavaScript

function shareViaTwitter() {
  window.open(
    "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=" +
      "Hurray! I am learning ContextMenu from MDN via Mozilla"
  );
}

function shareViaFacebook() {
  window.open(
    "https://facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=" +
      "https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/Using_HTML_context_menus"
  );
}

function incFont() {
  document.getElementById("fontSizing").style.fontSize = "larger";
}

function decFont() {
  document.getElementById("fontSizing").style.fontSize = "smaller";
}

function changeImage() {
  const index = Math.ceil(Math.random() * 39 + 1);
  document.images[0].src = `${index}.png`;
}

Result

{{EmbedLiveSample("Example", "100%", 400)}}

Specifications

The contextmenu attribute is obsolete and will be removed from all browsers.

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also