This is a plugin for d3.js that allows you to easy use context-menus in your visualizations. It's 100% d3 based and done in the "d3 way", so you don't need to worry about including additional frameworks.
It's written to be very light weight and customizable. You can see it in action here:
http://plnkr.co/edit/hAx36JQhb0RsvVn7TomS?p=info
bower install d3-context-menu
// Define your menu
var menu = [
{
title: 'Item #1',
action: function(d) {
console.log('Item #1 clicked!');
console.log('The data for this circle is: ' + d);
},
disabled: false // optional, defaults to false
},
{
title: 'Item #2',
action: function(d) {
console.log('You have clicked the second item!');
console.log('The data for this circle is: ' + d);
}
}
]
var data = [1, 2, 3];
var g = d3.select('body').append('svg')
.attr('width', 200)
.attr('height', 400)
.append('g');
g.selectAll('circles')
.data(data)
.enter()
.append('circle')
.attr('r', 30)
.attr('fill', 'steelblue')
.attr('cx', function(d) {
return 100;
})
.attr('cy', function(d) {
return d * 100;
})
.on('contextmenu', d3.contextMenu(menu)); // attach menu to element
});
Menus can have Headers and Dividers. To specify a header simply don't define an "action" property. To specify a divider, simply add a "divider: true" property to the menu item, and it'll be considered a divider. Example menu definition:
var menu = [
{
title: 'Header',
},
{
title: 'Normal item',
action: function() {}
},
{
divider: true
},
{
title: 'Last item',
action: function() {}
}
];
Menus can have Nested Menu. To specify a nested menu, simply add "children" property. Children has item of array.
var menu = [
{
title: 'Parent',
children: [
{
title: 'Child',
children: [
{
// header
title: 'Grand-Child1'
},
{
// normal
title: 'Grand-Child2',
action: function() {}
},
{
// divider
divider: true
},
{
// disable
title: 'Grand-Child3',
action: function() {}
}
]
}
]
},
];
See the index.htm file in the example folder to see this in action.
You can pass in a callback that will be executed before the context menu appears. This can be useful if you need something to close tooltips or perform some other task before the menu appears:
...
.on('contextmenu', d3.contextMenu(menu, function() {
console.log('Quick! Before the menu appears!');
})); // attach menu to element
You can pass in a callback that will be executed after the context menu appears using the onClose option:
...
.on('contextmenu', d3.contextMenu(menu, {
onOpen: function() {
console.log('Quick! Before the menu appears!');
},
onClose: function() {
console.log('Menu has been closed.');
}
})); // attach menu to element
You can use information from your context in menu names, simply specify a function for title which returns a string:
var menu = [
{
title: function(d) {
return 'Delete circle '+d.circleName;
},
action: function(d) {
// delete it
}
},
{
title: function(d) {
return 'Item 2';
},
action: function(d) {
// do nothing interesting
}
}
];
// Menu shown is:
[Delete Circle MyCircle]
[Item 2]
You can also have different lists of menu items for different nodes if menu is a function:
var menu = function(data) {
if (data.x > 100) {
return [{
title: 'Item #1',
action: function(d) {
console.log('Item #1 clicked!');
console.log('The data for this circle is: ' + d);
}
}];
} else {
return [{
title: 'Item #1',
action: function(d) {
console.log('Item #1 clicked!');
console.log('The data for this circle is: ' + d);
}
}, {
title: 'Item #2',
action: function(d) {
console.log('Item #2 clicked!');
console.log('The data for this circle is: ' + d);
}
}];
}
};
// Menu shown for nodes with x < 100 contains 1 item, while other nodes have 2 menu items
The following example shows how to add a right click menu to a tree diagram:
http://plnkr.co/edit/bDBe0xGX1mCLzqYGOqOS?p=info
Default position can be overwritten by providing a position option (either object or function returning an object):
...
.on('contextmenu', d3.contextMenu(menu, {
onOpen: function() {
...
},
onClose: function() {
...
},
position: {
top: 100,
left: 200
}
})); // attach menu to element
or
...
.on('contextmenu', d3.contextMenu(menu, {
onOpen: function() {
...
},
onClose: function() {
...
},
position: function(d) {
var elm = this;
var bounds = elm.getBoundingClientRect();
// eg. align bottom-left
return {
top: bounds.top + bounds.height,
left: bounds.left
}
}
})); // attach menu to element
d3.contextMenu(menu, {
...
theme: 'my-awesome-theme'
});
or
d3.contextMenu(menu, {
...
theme: function () {
if (foo) {
return 'my-foo-theme';
}
else {
return 'my-awesome-theme';
}
}
});
d3.contextMenu('close');
The following example shows how to add a right click menu to a tree diagram:
http://plnkr.co/edit/bDBe0xGX1mCLzqYGOqOS?p=info
Depending on the D3 library version used the callback functions can provide an additional argument:
- for D3 6.x or above it will be the event, since the global d3.event is not available.
var menu = [
{
title: 'Item #1',
action: function(d, event) {
console.log('Item #1 clicked!');
console.log('The data for this circle is: ' + d);
console.log('The event is: ' + event);
}
}
]
- for D3 5.x or below it will be the index, for backward compatibility reasons.
var menu = [
{
title: 'Item #1',
action: function(d, index) {
console.log('Item #1 clicked!');
console.log('The data for this circle is: ' + d);
console.log('The index is: ' + index);
}
}
]
- Added support for accessing event information in with D3 6.x.
- Added support for D3 6.x
- The
indexparameter of callbacks are undefined when using D3 6.x or above. See the index.htm file in the example folder to see how to get the properindexvalue in that case. - Added class property for menu items that allows specifying CSS classes (see: patorjk#56).
- Menu updated so it wont go off bottom or right of screen when window is smaller.
- Menu close bug fix.
- Nested submenus are now supported.
- Default theme styles extracted to their own CSS class (
d3-context-menu-theme) - Ability to specify own theme css class via the
themeconfiguration option (as string or function returning string) - onOpen/onClose callbacks now have consistent signature (they receive
dataandindex, andthisargument refers to the DOM element the context menu is related to) - all other functions (eg.
position,menu) have the same signature andthisobject asonClose/onOpen - Context menu now closes on
mousedownoutside of the menu, instead ofclickoutside (to mimic behaviour of the native context menu) disabledanddividercan now be functions as well and have the same signature andthisobject as explained above- Close the context menu programatically using
d3.contextMenu('close');
- Ability to set menu position
- Minified css and js versions
- Fixed issue where context menu element is never removed from DOM
- Fixed issue where
<body>click event is never removed - Fixed issue where the incorrect
onClosecallback was called when menu was closed as a result of clicking outside
- If contextmenu is clicked twice it will close rather than open the browser's context menu.
- Header and Divider items.
- Ability to disable items.