Context Menu
Right-click menu that opens at the pointer and stays on screen. Shift+F10 opens it from the keyboard.
- Category: Navigation
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Context Menu
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
items | { label, icon?, shortcut?, destructive?, disabled?, onSelect? } | { type: "separator" } | — | |
children | ReactNode | — | The right-click area. |
About Context Menu
Context Menu opens at the pointer on right click and repositions itself to stay on screen near the edges. Shift+F10 opens it from the keyboard, so it is accessible as well as handy.
Context Menu is a navigation component for React 19, styled with Tailwind CSS 4 and animated with Motion. It drops into Next.js, Vite, Remix or Astro through the shadcn CLI as a single file you own.
When to use Context Menu
- File and asset managers.
- Canvas and design tools.
- Tables and lists with row actions.
- Editors with text and block actions.
How it works
It captures the contextmenu event, measures the viewport and flips the menu away from edges. Inside it is the same accessible menu as Dropdown Menu, with keyboard navigation and focus return.
Links and buttons keep their roles, arrow keys move where a group is expected, the current item is marked with aria-current, and focus is always visible. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Context Menu
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
The Customize panel next to the preview lets you change hint live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- items.
Goes well with Context Menu
These navigation pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Dock: A macOS-style React dock whose icons swell with pointer distance and show labels
- Expandable Tabs: Compact React icon tabs where the active tab expands to reveal its label
- Floating Nav: A floating React pill nav that hides on scroll down and returns on scroll up
- Bottom Nav: An animated React mobile tab bar with a sliding pill, hopping icons and badges
- Scroll Progress: A glowing React scroll progress bar for the page or any scroll container
Install Context Menu
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/context-menuContext Menu is part of Charcoal UI Pro. One seat unlocks all 300 Pro components, 107 landing-page sections and 100 full templates, for every personal and client project, with updates included. Add the @charcoal registry once with your access token, then the command above copies context-menu.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge.
You own the file you install: no runtime package, no lock-in, nothing to keep in sync. Change it however your product needs.
See Charcoal UI Pro pricing · Pro setup
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install Context Menu?
- Context Menu is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/context-menu. It copies context-menu.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Context Menu free for commercial use?
- Context Menu needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.
- Does Context Menu work with Next.js?
- Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.
- Can an AI coding agent install Context Menu?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Context Menu's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.