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Bill Gradwohl
Bill Gradwohl

Reputation: 385

Kiosk, no keyboard, need access to right click event

In a kiosk environment, where there is no keyboard, and only a device that the browsers sees as a 2 button mouse, I need access to the right mouse click. This is a custom application running in a browser against file://.... with no Internet access behind airport security.

The left button will increase by 1 a totals field. The intent for the right mouse button is to decrease by 1 the same totals field. There are dozens of such fields on the page.

If I turn off the context menu, I still don't get a click event on right mouse click, even though the Mozilla Developer site documents what I'm supposed to get. How can I gain access to the click event on right click?

I can't use double click on the left to signal the negative because we expect users to rapidly left click to run up totals per field. Having left double click mean negative wouldn't work.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 214

Answers (3)

Shylo Hana
Shylo Hana

Reputation: 1870

Set context to return false on the body, then add handlers to the elements you wish to handle. Bubbling.

<body oncontextmenu='return false' style='margin: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;'>

  <div style='width: 64px; height: 64px; background: rgb(44, 188, 44); position: absolute;' oncontextmenu='alert("Click!");'>

</body>

Upvotes: 0

thriqon
thriqon

Reputation: 2488

Use the oncontextmenu event and the click event. Link to jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/EgL3R/

$('.area').click(function () {
    increment(this, 1);
}).bind('contextmenu', function () {
    increment(this, -1);
    return false;
});

Have fun :)

Upvotes: 1

Toby L Welch-Richards
Toby L Welch-Richards

Reputation: 817

<div oncontextmenu="javascript:alert('success!');return false;">
    Lorem Ipsum
</div>

If you do not return false it will also open the normal right click menu

If you right click on the div it will perform the function you give it

Upvotes: 1

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