contextMenus.ItemType

The type of menu item.

Type

Values of this type are strings. Possible values are:

normal
A context menu item that just displays a label.
checkbox

A context menu item that represents a binary state. It displays a checkmark next to the label. Clicking the item toggles the checkmark. The contextMenus.onClicked listener will be passed two extra properties: "checked", indicating whether the item is checked now, and "wasChecked", indicating whether the item was checked before the click event.

radio

A context menu item that represents one of a group of choices. Just like a checkbox, this also displays a checkmark next to the label, and its contextMenus.onClicked listener is passed "checked" and "wasChecked". However, if you create more than one radio item, then the items function as a group of radio items: only one item in the group can be checked, and clicking an item makes it the checked item.

separator
A line separating a group of items.

Browser compatibility

ChromeEdgeFirefoxFirefox for AndroidOpera
Basic supportYesYes48NoYes

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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