The different contexts a menu can appear in.
Type
Values of this type are strings. The item is displayed when the given context applies. Possible values are:
- all
- Specifying 'all' is equivalent to the combination of all other contexts except for 'tab'.
- audio
- Applies when the user context-clicks an audio element.
- browser_action
- Applies when the user context-clicks your browser action. You can only add 6 items to the top-level context menu, but can add submenus.
- editable
- Applies when the user context-clicks an editable element, like a textarea.
- frame
- Applies when the user context-clicks in a nested iframe.
- image
- Applies when the user context-clicks an image.
- link
- Applies when the user context-clicks on a link.
- page
- Applies when the user context-clicks in the page, but none of the other page contexts apply (for example, the click is not on an image or a nested iframe or a link).
- page_action
- Applies when the user context-clicks your page action. You can only add 6 items to the top-level context menu, but can add submenus.
- password
- Applies when the user context-clicks on a password input element.
- selection
- Applies when part of the page is selected.
- tab
- Applies when the user context-clicks on a tab (specifically, this refers to the user interface element enabling the user to switch from one browser tab to another, not to the page itself).
- video
- Applies when the user context-clicks a video element.
Note that "launcher" is not supported.
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Firefox for Android | Opera | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | Yes | Yes | 48 1 | No | Yes |
browser_action | Yes | Yes | 53 1 | No | Yes |
page_action | Yes | Yes | 53 | No | Yes |
launcher | Yes | No | 48 | No | Yes |
password | No | No | 53 | No | No |
tab | No | No | 53 | No | No |
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.contextMenus API. This documentation is derived from context_menus.json in the Chromium code.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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