activate a p:ajax event where using right click

Question

I am working with JSF and Primefaces 5.2 ad i noticed that when you use a commandLink and add the event onclick with p:ajax like that you make a sort of selection on it

<h:commandLink  id="commandLink">
<p:ajax event="click"/>
</h:commandLink>

my question is : i am working with javascript and what i want to do is when the user right click on the commandLink it activate the p:ajax specification (making the selection effect)

myJavascript

document.oncontextmenu = function () { };

I know that my question is a little bit weird thank you.

Answer 1

You can bind the contextmenu event to your commandLink element like so.

var commandLink = document.getElementById('commandLink');

commandLink.addEventListener('contextmenu', function (event) {
  alert('commandLink was right clicked');
});

Demo