Right click

Fortunately you most often want to know if the right button has been clicked. Since W3C and Microsoft happen to agree on this one and give button a value of 2, you can still detect a right click.

function doSomething(e) {
 var rightclick;
 if (!e) var e = window.event;
 if (e.which) rightclick = (e.which == 3);
 else if (e.button) rightclick = (e.button == 2);
 alert('Rightclick: '   rightclick); // true or false
}

Please note that, although Macs have only one mouse button, Mozilla gives a Ctrl–Click a button value of 2, since Ctrl–Click also brings up the context menu. iCab doesn’t yet support mouse button properties at all and you cannot yet detect a right–click in Opera.

See the Image protection script for a practical example of right–click detection.