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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

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