Note: rctx-contextmenu Supports React 16.8 and above versions because this plugin solely uses React Hooks.

rctx-contextmenu

Context menu plugin for React. Live Demo | Example Code

The problem 😯

There are lot of times when you want to customize the right click menu or Context Menu. May be you want to add more customized options or even sub options with same look and feel how a native context menu gives.

The solution 😄

rctx-contextmenu gives that flexibility to customize Context Menu. You can add options, sub-options with exactly the look and feel how you get when you use the native Context Menu.

Key features

• Append to anywhere you want
• Customize styling like however you want
• In-built animation
• Extensive list of APIs
• Dynamically add/remove menus

Browser Support

• IE 11 and Edge >= 12
• FireFox >= 38
• Chrome >= 47

Table of contents

• Installation
• Sample Usage
• Full Example Usage
• Live Demo
• Example Code
• APIs
• Styling
• Contributions
• LICENSE

Installation

npm install --save rctx-contextmenu

Sample Usage

import React from 'react';
import { ContextMenuTrigger, ContextMenu, ContextMenuItem } from 'rctx-contextmenu';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="app">
      <ContextMenuTrigger
        id="my-context-menu-1"
      >
        <div className="box">
          Right Click On Me
        </div>
      </ContextMenuTrigger>

      <ContextMenu id="my-context-menu-1">
        <ContextMenuItem>Menu Item 1</ContextMenuItem>
        <ContextMenuItem>Menu Item 2</ContextMenuItem>
        <ContextMenuItem>Menu Item 3</ContextMenuItem>
        <ContextMenuItem>Menu Item 4</ContextMenuItem>
      </ContextMenu>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Full example usage

<ContextMenu
  id="my-contextmenu"
  appendTo="body"
  animation="zoom"
  hideOnLeave={false}
  preventHideOnScroll={true}
  preventHideOnResize={true}
  attributes={{
    'aria-label': 'Some text',
    'aria-labelledby': 'Some text'
  }}
  className="my-context-menu"
  onMouseLeave={() => console.log('Mouse left')}
  onShow={() => console.log('I am visible!')}
  onHide={() => console.log('I am hidden!')}
/>

<ContextMenuItem
  disabled={true}
  preventClose={false}
  attributes={{
    'aria-label': 'Some text',
    'aria-labelledby': 'Some text'
  }}
  className="my-context-menu-item"
  onClick={() => console.log("I'm clicked!")}
/>

<ContextMenuTrigger
  id="my-contextmenu"
  disable={false}
  disableWhileShiftPressed={true}
  attributes={{
    'aria-label': 'Some text',
    'aria-labelledby': 'Some text'
  }}
  className="my-context-menu-trigger"
/>

<Submenu
  title="My submenu"
  attributes={{
    'aria-label': 'Some text',
    'aria-labelledby': 'Some text'
  }}
  className="my-context-menu-submenu"
/>

Live Demo

Live demo is available here.

Example Code

Example code is available here.

APIs

<ContextMenu />

Name	Type	Options	Description
id	String	Should be a string.	`ContextMenu` and `ContextMenuTrigger` id should match.
appendTo	String	Should be a string which contains element selector like body / #id / .class . Default: Enclosed element	Append context menu inside required element.
animation	String	Enums: fade | zoom | pop | toTopLeft | rightToLeft	Make the contextmenu visible in animated way.
hideOnLeave	Boolean	true / false. Default: false	Hide contextmenu on blur or mouseOut.
attributes	Object	-	Add additional attributes to the element.
className	String	-	Additional classes.
preventHideOnResize	Boolean	true / false. Default: false	Prevent hiding contextmenu from hiding on window resize.
preventHideOnScroll	Boolean	true / false. Default: false	Prevent hiding contextmenu from hiding on scroll.
onShow	Function	() => {}	Trigger this event when Context Menu is visible.
onHide	Function	() => {}	Trigger this event when Context Menu is hidden.
onMouseLeave	Function	() => {}	Invoke onMouseLeave on blur or mouseOut.

<ContextMenuItem />

Name	Type	Options	Description
disabled	Boolean	true / False . Default False	Disable menu item.
preventClose	Boolean	true / False . Default False	Context menu is closed as soon as an item is clicked.
disableWhileShiftPressed	Boolean	true / false. Default: false	Open browser default contextmenu if shift pressed while right click on trigger element.
attributes	Object	-	Add additional attributes to the element.
className	String	-	Additional classes.
onClick	Function	() => {}	Fire onClick event.

<ContextMenuTrigger />

Name	Type	Options	Description
id	String	Should be a string.	`ContextMenu` and `ContextMenuTrigger` id should match.
attributes	Object	-	Add additional attributes to the element.
disable	true / false. Default: false	false	Disable contextmenu and open browser default contextmenu.
className	String	-	Additional classes.

<Submenu />

Name	Type	Options	Description
title	String	Should be a string.	Title for the Submenu.
attributes	Object	-	Add additional attributes to the element.
className	String	-	Additional classes.

Styling

Styling is totally up to you. You can use CSS or even SCSS to customize the styling part. Below are the classes you can consider for styling

• menu-trigger (Right click area wrapper)
• contextmenu (The Context Menu)
• contextmenu__item (Each Context Menu item)
• contextmenu__item--disabled (Context Menu item)
• submenu (Context Submenu)
• submenu__item (Context Submenu item)

Contributions 🙏

Any kind of contribution would be much appreciated. It could be small change in the doc or even any kind of advice. You can create issues if you feel any feature which is missing which solves bigger problems.

Develop locally

First clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/reachtokish/rctx-contextmenu.git

Navigate inside rctx-contextmenu folder

cd rctx-contextmenu

Install dependencies

npm install

Then start server to run it locally

npm start

Now app should run on localhost:1234

Design inspiration Khalid Hasan Zibon / Dribble

License

MIT License