Context Menu in JavaScript (ES5) Grid control

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18 May 2022 / 3 minutes to read

The Grid has options to show the context menu when right clicked on it. To enable this feature, you need to define either default or custom item in the contextMenuItems.

To use the context menu, inject the ContextMenu module in the grid.

The default items are in the following table.

Items	Description
`AutoFit`	Auto fit the current column.
`AutoFitAll`	Auto fit all columns.
`Edit`	Edit the current record.
`Delete`	Delete the current record.
`Save`	Save the edited record.
`Cancel`	Cancel the edited state.
`Copy`	Copy the selected records.
`PdfExport`	Export the grid data as Pdf document.
`ExcelExport`	Export the grid data as Excel document.
`CsvExport`	Export the grid data as CSV document.
`Group`	Group the current column.
`Ungroup`	Ungroup the current column.
`SortAscending`	Sort the current column in ascending order.
`SortDescending`	Sort the current column in descending order.
`FirstPage`	Go to the first page.
`PrevPage`	Go to the previous page.
`LastPage`	Go to the last page.
`NextPage`	Go to the next page.

Source

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index.js

index.html

ej.grids.Grid.Inject(ej.grids.Page, ej.grids.Group, ej.grids.Sort, ej.grids.Filter, ej.grids.ContextMenu);
var grid = new ej.grids.Grid({    
    dataSource: data,
    allowSorting: true,
    allowPaging: true,
    editSettings: {allowEditing: true, allowAdding: true},
    allowPdfExport: true,
    allowExcelExport: true,
    contextMenuItems: ['AutoFit', 'AutoFitAll', 'SortAscending', 'SortDescending',
                'Copy', 'Edit', 'Delete', 'Save', 'Cancel',
                'PdfExport', 'ExcelExport', 'CsvExport', 'FirstPage', 'PrevPage',
                'LastPage', 'NextPage'],
    columns: [
        { field: 'OrderID', headerText: 'Order ID', width: 200, textAlign: 'Right'},
        { field: 'Freight', width: 150, format: 'C2', textAlign: 'Right', editType: 'numericedit' },
        { field: 'ShipName', headerText: 'Ship Name', width: 300 },
        { field: 'ShipCountry', headerText: 'Ship Country',  width: 200 },
        { field: 'ShipCity', headerText: 'Ship City', width: 200 }
    ]
});
grid.appendTo('#Grid');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>EJ2 Grid</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript Grid Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-grids/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="es5-datasource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <script id="rowtemplate" type="text/x-template">
    <tr>
        <td class="photo">
            <img src="${EmployeeID}.png" alt="${EmployeeID}" />
        </td>
        <td class="details">
            <table class="CardTable" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2">
                <colgroup>
                    <col width="50%">
                    <col width="50%">
                </colgroup>
                <tbody>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">First Name </td>
                        <td>${FirstName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Last Name</td>
                        <td>${LastName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Title
                        </td>

                        <td>${Title}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Country
                        </td>
                        <td>${Country}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </td>
     </tr>
    </script>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="Grid"></div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

The custom context menu items can be added by defining the contextMenuItems as a collection of contextMenuItemModel. Actions for this customized items can be defined in the contextMenuClick event.

Source

Preview

index.js

index.html

ej.grids.Grid.Inject(ej.grids.Page, ej.grids.Group, ej.grids.Sort, ej.grids.Filter, ej.grids.ContextMenu);
var grid = new ej.grids.Grid({
    dataSource: data,
    contextMenuItems: [{text: 'Copy with headers', target: '.e-content', id: 'copywithheader'}],
    allowSelection: true,
    allowPaging: true,
    contextMenuClick: function(args){
        if(args.item.id === 'copywithheader'){
            grid.copy(true);
        }
    },
    columns: [
        { field: 'OrderID', headerText: 'Order ID', textAlign: 'Left', width: 125, isPrimaryKey: true },
        { field: 'EmployeeID', headerText: 'Employee ID', textAlign: 'Right', width: 125 },
        { field: 'ShipName', headerText: 'Ship Name', width: 120 },
        { field: 'ShipCity', headerText: 'Ship City', width: 170 },
        { field: 'CustomerID', headerText: 'Customer ID', width: 150, textAlign: 'Right' }
    ]
});
grid.appendTo('#Grid');

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>EJ2 Grid</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript Grid Control">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-grids/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="es5-datasource.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <script id="rowtemplate" type="text/x-template">
    <tr>
        <td class="photo">
            <img src="${EmployeeID}.png" alt="${EmployeeID}" />
        </td>
        <td class="details">
            <table class="CardTable" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2">
                <colgroup>
                    <col width="50%">
                    <col width="50%">
                </colgroup>
                <tbody>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">First Name </td>
                        <td>${FirstName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Last Name</td>
                        <td>${LastName} </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Title
                        </td>

                        <td>${Title}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td class="CardHeader">Country
                        </td>
                        <td>${Country}
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </td>
     </tr>
    </script>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="Grid"></div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

You can hide or show an item in context menu for specific area inside of grid by defining the target property.

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Context Menu in JavaScript (ES5) Grid control

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