Context Menu

28 Aug 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

<ej:RTE ID="RTE1" runat="server" ShowContextMenu="true">
    <RTEContent>
            The Rich Text Editor (RTE) control is an easy to render in
        client side. Customer easy to 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. 
    </RTEContent>
</ej:RTE>

• 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

<ej:RTE ID="RTE1" runat="server" ShowContextMenu="true">
    <RTEContent>
            The Rich Text Editor (RTE) control is an easy to render in
        client side. Customer easy to 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. 
    </RTEContent>
</ej:RTE>
<script>
    $("#<%=RTE1.ClientID%>").ejRTE({ contextMenuClick: function(args){//handle menu-item click action.
    } });
    var rteObj =  $("#<%=RTE1.ClientID%>").data("ejRTE");// Inserts new item to the ContextMenu 
    rteObj.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](http://help.syncfusion.com/js/api/ejrte#methods:removeMenuOption “”).

HTML

<ej:RTE ID="RTE1" runat="server" ShowContextMenu="true">
    <RTEContent>
            The Rich Text Editor (RTE) control is an easy to render in
        client side. Customer easy to 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. 
    </RTEContent>
</ej:RTE>
<script>
    var rteObj = $("#<%=RTE1.ClientID%>").data("ejRTE"); 
    rteObj.removeMenuOption("Table-Properties");
</script>