Context menu for editable items

**devnull69** · 01-18-2011, 03:33 PM

Hi everyone,

I am developing a small extension that adds a context menu to "editable" items on pages. This works quite well. But after hours of intense research I was not able to find out which page element the context menu had been activated from.

Example: There are text boxes on a page. When I right click on one of the text boxes I get my context menu. In the "onclick" callback of the context menu I want to detect which text box I clicked on ... how can I do that?

Thomas

**devnull69** · 01-19-2011, 09:38 AM

Never mind, I found out

You can use an event listener for "contextmenu" to determine the element in a content script:

Code:

window.addEventListener('contextmenu', function(event) {
   myelement = event.target;
}, false);

**PAEz** · 01-19-2011, 03:38 PM

Thanks for coming back and sharing that with us, great workaround for the problem, works great.

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