Disabling rightclick…but enabling it on other places?

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Kevin Ingwersen

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Aug 25, 2013, 9:06:06 PM8/25/13

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Hey everyone.

Quick question, lets get into the code:

<html<
<head>...</head>
<body onrightclick="return false;">
<div id="content">blablabla</div>
<div id="console">[prog/cmd] msg</div>
</body>
</html>

I want to make right-click in #console work. I have a way bigger structure with more divs. So basically, I want to enable rightclick just in one div, but disable it everywhere else. o.o
How's that gonna be done?
I do use jQuery.

Regards, Ingwie

sihorton

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Aug 29, 2013, 12:21:21 PM8/29/13

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Hi Ingwie :-)

You should just be able to set multiple event handlers. So with jQuery bind to document or to a div somewhere and set what you want the right click to do in general. Then for the console div bind to that and set the right click for it. Since events "bubble" from one div to the next if there is no event handler then an event will be caught by the div closest to it. So the magic of jquery should mean you can program a generic handler at the document or root div handler and then program a handler for any div that you want to handle differently.