Can I handle a right click event on an HTML <button /> element?

Question

I\'ve seen plenty of questions and answers on SO and elsewhere that talk about right click events and how to catch and handle them with JavaScript, generally using the

Answer 1

Sure, just add a onmousedown listener, check which mouse was pressed:

JS:

document.getElementById("test").onmousedown = function(event) {
    if (event.which == 3) {
        alert("right clicked!");
    }
}

HTML:

Test

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/Jmmqz/