vue-simple-context-menu

Simple context-menu component built for Vue. Works well with both left and right clicks. Nothing too fancy, just works and is simple to use.

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Vue 3 Support

Vue 3 is supported from v4.0.0 and beyond (current master). To use vue-simple-context-menu with Vue 2, use v3.4.2.

Install

yarn add vue-simple-context-menu

About

Just a simple little menu to be shown where a click happens - closes after use automatically by clicking an option or outside of the menu. Multiple menus are supported - just make sure to use a unique string as your element-id prop value.

A nice feature that comes baked in is the menu placement after a click - it sits just ever so slightly under your click location - so that any hover style you had on the item that was clicked gets removed nicely. I modeled it after the macOS right click menu.

Usage

import { createApp } from 'vue';
import VueSimpleContextMenu from 'vue-simple-context-menu';
import 'vue-simple-context-menu/dist/vue-simple-context-menu.css';

const app = createApp(App);

app.component('vue-simple-context-menu', VueSimpleContextMenu);

<!-- This is a basic use case where you have an array of items that you want
to allow to be clicked. In this case, `items` is an array of objects.
Each item has a click event that ties to a function. See the demo for a full example (with multiple menus as well). -->
<div class="item-wrapper">
  <div
    v-for="item in items"
    @click.prevent.stop="handleClick($event, item)"
    class="item-wrapper__item"
  >
    {{item.name}}
  </div>
</div>

<!-- Make sure you add the `ref` attribute, as that is what gives you the ability
to open the menu. -->
<vue-simple-context-menu
  element-id="myUniqueId"
  :options="options"
  ref="vueSimpleContextMenu"
  @option-clicked="optionClicked"
/>

handleClick (event, item) {
  this.$refs.vueSimpleContextMenu.showMenu(event, item)
}


optionClicked (event) {
  window.alert(JSON.stringify(event))
}

Note - you must pass the click event-info variable to the showMenu() function because that’s how we know where to show the menu.

Note - make sure to use @click.prevent.stop (or @contextmenu.prevent.stop for right click) when setting up the click handler.

Props

prop	type	description	required
elementId	String	Unique String that acts as the id of your menu.	Yes
options	Array	Array of menu options to show. Component will use the name parameter as the label.	Yes
options.name	String	Label for the option.	Yes
options.class	String	A custom class that will be applied to the option.	No
options.type	String	Only one possible value at the moment - divider. Pass this to set the object as a divider.	No
ref	String	Unique String that allows you to show the menu on command.	Yes

Methods

method	parameters	description
showMenu	event (MouseEvent), item (Object)	Used to show the menu. Make sure to pass a MouseEvent and an Object.

Events

event	value	description
option-clicked	Object	When a menu item is clicked the component will emit an event with a value containing the clicked item and the menu option that was clicked. Register for this event to capture the selection result.
menu-closed		Emitted when the menu is closed

SASS Structure

.vue-simple-context-menu {
  &--active {
  }

  &__item {
    &:hover {
    }
  }

  &__divider {
  }
}

Development

# Install dependencies
yarn

# Serve with hot reload
yarn dev

# Run the tests
yarn test

# Build demo page
yarn build:example

# Build library
yarn build:library

# Build everything and run tests
yarn build

Other

Go ahead and fork the project! Submit an issue if needed. Have fun!

Thank You

Influenced by Lucas Calazans’s pen. Go ahead and check out his other work.

License

MIT