Context Menu

28 Jun 20174 minutes to read

Editor provides custom context menu support, which enables more interaction on the content modification and also it can be enabled dynamically. The showContextMenu property helps to enable custom context menu within editor area.
Based on the target content type context menu provides different actions. Refer the details with below table.

  • HTML
    • <textarea id="texteditor" ej-rte e-showcontextmenu="true">
<p><b>Description:</b></p>
<p>
The Rich Text Editor (RTE) control is easy to render in the client side. Customers can easily edit the contents and get the HTML content for the displayed content. A rich text editor control provides users with a toolbar that helps them to apply rich text formats to the text entered in the text area.
</p>
</textarea>

//or

//create an instance from an existing RTE.

rteObj=$("#texteditor").data("ejRTE");

//set the showcontextmenu property using set model

rteObj.setModel({showContextMenu: true});
    • Based on the target content type contextmenu provides different actions- refer the details with below table.
    Content-Type Supported Actions
    Text content cut, copy, paste, add/edit/open/remove hyperlink.
    Image content cut, copy, paste, image properties.
    Table content cut, copy, paste, insert row/column, remove row/column/table, edit table properties, add/edit/open/remove hyperlink.

    NOTE

    We have given support to own context menu by restricting the default browser context menu, which provides you the options for quick access but, with that clipboard action are restricted based on browser behavior.

    However we can disable the context menu by using ShowContextMenu API and it needs to be set as false, if you wish to continue with default browser context menu.

    Adding an item with the context menu

    To add a new item to the editor contextmenu, you need to use the ‘insertMenuOption’’ client side-event.

  • HTML
    • <textarea id="texteditor" ej-rte e-contextmenuclick="menuclick">
<p><b>Description:</b></p>
<p>
The Rich Text Editor (RTE) control is easy to render in the
client side. Customers can easily edit the contents and get the HTML content for
the displayed content. A rich text editor control provides users with a toolbar
that helps them to apply rich text formats to the text entered in the text
area.
</p>
</textarea>

<script>

angular.module('rteApp', ['ejangular'])
.controller('RTECtrl', function ($scope) {
        $scope.menuclick = function (args) {
        var rteeObj = $("#texteditor").data("ejRTE");// Inserts new item to the contextmenu 
        rteeObj.insertMenuOption({
                newItem: "Show Table Details",
                targetItem: "Table Properties",
                insertType: ("insertAfter"),
                menuType: { text: false, image: false, hyperlink: false, table: true },
                spriteCssClass: "e-rte-toolbar-icon tableProperties"
        });
        }
});

</script>

    Removing an item from the context menu

    To remove a menu-item from the editor contextmenu, you have to use the ‘removeMenuOption’ method from the ejRTE object and find the method and parameter details with the API-document.

  • HTML
    • <textarea id="texteditor" ej-rte>
<p><b>Description:</b></p>
<p>
The Rich Text Editor (RTE) control is easy to render in the
client side. Customers can easily edit the contents and get the HTML content for
the displayed content. A rich text editor control provides users with a toolbar
that helps them to apply rich text formats to the text entered in the text
area. 
</p>
</textarea>

<script>

var rteeObj = $("#texteditor").data("ejRTE"); 
rteeObj.removeMenuOption("Table-Details");

</script>