How to trap right-click event?

Question

What is the way to trap a right-click event on a document element? I could not find any event handlers anywhere.

Answer 1

Right-click is special on many browsers, triggering the contextmenu event rather than a click event. Some browsers let you prevent the default behavior, some (Opera, for instance) do not. More here: http://unixpapa.com/js/mouse.html

EDIT: Rereading that page (it'd been a while), it looks like mousedown and mouseup are even more reliable than contextmenu (although all major browsers trigger contextmenu). click, on the other hand, doesn't appear to happen at all, on any significant browser.