show

The show event is fired when a contextmenu event was fired on/bubbled to an element that has a contextmenu attribute.

General info

Specification

HTML5

Interface

Event

Bubbles

No

Cancelable

No

Target

Element

Default Action

Show a context menu built from the related menu element.

Properties

Property	Type	Description
target Read only	EventTarget	The event target (the topmost target in the DOM tree).
type Read only	DOMString	The type of event.
bubbles Read only	Boolean	Whether the event normally bubbles or not
cancelable Read only	Boolean	Whether the event is cancellable or not?

Example

<div contextmenu="test"></div>
<menu type="context" id="test">
    <menuitem label="alert" onclick="alert('the alert label has been clicked')" />
</menu>

<script>
  document.getElementById("test").addEventListener("show", function(e){
    alert("the context menu will be displayed");
  }, false);
</script>

Related Events

• contextmenu