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OnClientContextMenuItemClicking

The OnClientContextMenuItemClicking client-side event occurs when the user clicks a menu item, but before the OnClientContextMenuItemClicked event fires. The event is called just prior to postback or url redirection and can be canceled.

The event handler receives parameters:

  1. The TreeView instance that fired the event.

  2. Event arguments with functions:

  • get_menuItem() retrieves a reference to the selected context menu item.

  • get_node() retrieves a reference to the clicked on node.

  • set_cancel() call this function to specify whether the event should be canceled (true) or not (false).

  • get_domEvent() retrieves the DOM event object of the item click.

The example below shows how to cancel the event if the text of the menu item is "Search"

<telerik:RadTreeView RenderMode="Lightweight" ID="RadTreeView1" runat="server" OnClientContextMenuItemClicking="ClientContextMenuItemClicking">
</telerik:RadTreeView>
function ClientContextMenuItemClicking(sender, eventArgs) {
    var node = eventArgs.get_node();
    var item = eventArgs.get_menuItem();

    if ((item.get_text() == "Network Search") && (node.get_text() == "Printers")) {
        eventArgs.set_cancel(true);
    }
}

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