React Context Menu - Simple and Custom Right Click Menu Component

Overview

The React Context Menu or right-click menu is a graphical user interface component that appears when the user right-clicks or performs a touch and hold action. You can define the list of items the context menu will contain, create multilevel menus, and attach event handlers to the menu items for seamless integration with other components.

Multi-level nesting

Multi-level nested items are supported in React context menu. You can browse the sub menu by mouse hover/click in menu items. The appearance of context menu varies for desktop and mobile. In Mobile, users can view Multilevel nested items in single layer with provision to backtrack parent item.

• Multi-level nesting documentation

Built-in themes

React Context Menu supports built-in themes such as Bootstrap 5, Tailwind CSS, Fluent, high contrast, and more. Users can customize these built-in themes or create new themes to achieve the desired look and feel either by simply overriding SASS variables or using the Theme Studio application.

• Theme Studio Application

Web Accessibility

• Fully supports WAI-ARIA for working with screen readers and assistive devices.
• Follows WAI-ARIA best practices for implementing keyboard interaction.
• Based on WCAG 2.0 standards, we designed the UI element visuals such as foreground color, background color, line spacing, text, and images.
• Supports right-to-left (RTL) text direction for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.

React Context Menu Code Example

Easily get started with the React Context Menu using a few simple lines of TSX code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our React Context Menu Example that shows you how to render and configure a ContextMenu in React.

import { ContextMenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import './App.css';
class App extends React.Component {
    constructor() {
        super(...arguments);
        this.menuItems = [
            {
                text: 'Cut'
            },
            {
                text: 'Copy'
            },
            {
                text: 'Paste'
            }
        ];
    }
    render() {
        return (
        // specifies the tag to render the ContextMenu component
        <div>
        <div id="target">Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
        <ContextMenuComponent target="#target" items={this.menuItems}/>
      </div>);
    }
}

Other supported frameworks

Context Menu component is also available in Blazor, Vue, Angular, and JavaScript frameworks. Check out the different Context Menu platforms from the links below,

• Blazor Context Menu
• Vue Context Menu
• Angular Context Menu
• JavaScript Context Menu