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How do I detect a "scroll click" in JavaScript? [duplicate]

I am using the onclick event of a hashed link to open a <div> as a pop up. But the middle click does not trigger the onclick event but only takes the href attribute value of the link and loads the URL in a new page. How can I use middle click to open the <div> as a popup?

EDIT
This answer has been deprecated and doesn't work on Chrome. You will most probably end up using the auxclick event, but please refer to other answers below.
/EDIT
beggs' answer is correct, but it sounds like you want to prevent the default action of the middle click. In which case, include the following
$("#foo").on('click', function(e) {
if (e.which == 2) {
e.preventDefault();
alert("middle button");
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<a id="foo" href="http://example.com">middle click me</a>
preventDefault() will stop the default action of the event.

For the middle-click / mouse-wheel button to be detected, you have to use the event auxclick. E.g:
Then in your script file
function func(e) {
if (e.button == 1) {
alert("middle button clicked")
}
}
If you want to do it from JavaScript (without using the HTML attribute onauxclick), then you addEventListener to the element:
let myLink = document.getElementById('myLink')
myLink.addEventListener('auxclick', function(e) {
if (e.button == 1) {
alert("middle button clicked")
}
})
<a id="myLink" href="http://example.com">middle click me</a>
Checkout the mdn page about the auxclick event here.

You can use
event.button
to identify which mouse button was clicked.
Returns an integer value indicating the button that changed state.
0 for standard 'click', usually left button
1 for middle button, usually wheel-click
2 for right button, usually right-click
Note that this convention is not followed in Internet Explorer: see
QuirksMode for details.
The order of buttons may be different depending on how the pointing device has been configured.
Also read
Which mouse button has been clicked?
There are two properties for finding
out which mouse button has been
clicked: which and button. Please note
that these properties don’t always
work on a click event. To safely
detect a mouse button you have to use
the mousedown or mouseup events.
document.getElementById('foo').addEventListener('click', function(e) {
console.log(e.button);
e.preventDefault();
});
<a id="foo" href="http://example.com">middle click me</a>

This question is a bit old, but i found a solution:
$(window).on('mousedown', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
e.preventDefault();
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
middle click me
Chrome not fire "click" event for the mouse wheel
Work in FF and Chrome

I usually hate when people offer alternatives instead of solutions, but since solutions have already been provided I'm going to break my own rule.
Websites where the middle-click feature is overridden tend to really, really bug me. I'm usually middle-clicking because I want to open the new content in a new tab while having an unobstructed view of the current content. Any time you can leave the middle-click functionality alone and make the relevant content available through the HREF attribute of your clicked element, I strongly believe that's what you should do.

jQuery provides a .which attribute on the event that gives the click button id from left to right as 1, 2, 3. In this case you want 2.
Usage:
$("#foo").live('click', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
alert("middle button");
}
});
Adamantium's answer will also work but you need to watch out for IE as he notes:
$("#foo").live('click', function(e) {
if((!$.browser.msie && e.button == 1) || ($.browser.msie && e.button == 2)) {
alert("middle button");
}
});
Also remember the .button attribute is 0-indexed not 1-indexed like .which.

The proper method is to use .on, as .live has been deprecated and then removed from jQuery:
$("#foo").on('click', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
e.preventDefault();
alert("middle button");
}
});
Or if you want the "live" like feel and #foo is not on your page on document start:
$(document).on('click', '#foo', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
e.preventDefault();
alert("middle button");
}
});
original answer

I know I'm late for the party, but for those still having problems with handling the middle click, check if you delegate the event. In case of delegation, the click event does not fire. Compare:
This works for middle clicks:
$('a').on('click', function(){
console.log('middle click');
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
middle click me
This doesn't work for middle clicks:
$('div').on('click', 'a', function(){
alert('middle click');
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
middle click here
</div>
If you still need to track the middle click using event delegation, the only way around as stated in the corresponding jQuery ticket, is to use mousedown or mouseup instead. Like so:
This works for delegated middle clicks:
$('div').on('mouseup', 'a', function(){
console.log('middle click');
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
middle click me
</div>
See it online here.

How to disable mouse right click menu when shift is being pressed in firefox?

I'm trying to disable the mouse right click option. So i used contextmenu bind function to prevent it. This works fine but when shift is pressed along with the mosue right click the contextmenu bind function is not triggering but it shows the contextmenu. Means am not getting the alert but it shows the menu.
Here is the code i tried.
$(document).ready(function(){
$(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
alert('Context Menu event has fired!');
return false;
});
});
In order to capture the shift button press and mouse right click am doing the below code but this doesn't help. May be i am doing something wrong.
$(document).ready(function(){
$(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
alert('Context Menu event has fired!');
return false;
});
var shift = false;
jQuery(document).on("keydown", function(event) {
//check for shift key is pressed
if (event.which === 16) {
shift = true;
}
});
jQuery(document).mousedown(function(e) {
// e.which === 3 is for mouse right click
if (e.which === 3 && shift === true) {
console.log("both action are triggered");
return false; // how to stop the contextmenu action here
}
});
});
I tried giving the e.preventDefault instead of return false. I think the context menu event itself is not triggering in firefox when shift is clicked.
How to disable the mouse right click in this situation for firefox? Any help or clue will be much helpful
JSFIDDLE
NOTE
This is not happening in chrome. This is happening in firefox only. Is this a bug?

It's not a bug, it's a feature!
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/interactive-elements.html#context-menus
User agents may provide means for bypassing the context menu
processing model, ensuring that the user can always access the UA's
default context menus. For example, the user agent could handle
right-clicks that have the Shift key depressed in such a way that it
does not fire the contextmenu event and instead always shows the
default context menu.
You will not be able to do this in Firefox, by design. It's annoying, especially for complex web apps and games, but it's hard-coded into the browser and there's not way to disable it in javascript (that I know of).
Blame the standards, not Mozilla.

Javascript code to disable mouse right click
<script language="javascript">
document.onmousedown=disableRightclick;
status="Disabled";
function disableRightclick(event)
{
if(event.button==2)
{
alert(status);
return false;
}
}
</script>
On the HTML Body tag set the oncontextmenu property to false.
<body oncontextmenu="return false">
...
</body>
Disclaimer: The link provided is the blog which i have written. Hope
this solves the problem.

Prevent Enter key works as mouse click

I noticed that if you focus on an element that mouse clic can be triggered, the Enter keys acts like as you left click the mouse. I want to avoid this running since it comes into conflict in other pieces of my code.
In the following example if I focus on this imageButton and I clic once, the next clicks can be "done" with the Enter key, so I don't want this because this button fires a slideToggle() and shows a hidden div, so IMO it's pointless toggle this div with the keyboard.
Is there any way to make it global way?
Thank you.

Try this:
$(".myElements").keypress(function(e) {
if (e.which == 13) {
e.preventDefault();
}
});
It will stop the enter key behaviour only, allowing the other key functions to work as usual.

Listen for "keypress" and .preventDefault()
ex. with <myelm class="nokey"/>
function noKeyPressing(){
var elms = document.getElementsByClassName('nokey'),
stop = function stop(e){ return e.preventDefault(), false; },
i = elms.length;
while(--i >= 0){
elms[i].addEventListener('keypress', stop, true);
}
}
noKeyPressing()
If you just want to prevent Enter then the keyCode to look for is 13.

try
.unbind('keydown');
to disable all key events on your element

You can return false to prevent the default action.
<input type="submit" onkeypress="return false;" value="Submit" />

An other possible way i think:
$('.elems').on('click',function(){$(this).blur()});

try this code
$('body *').keypress(function (e) {
if (e.which == 13) {
e.preventDefault();
}
});
the above code will prevent pressing enter for every element in page
,You can change the selector $('body *') to something else depending to your case

keydown event for form or div in html

I am displaying a form inside a div tag as a dialog to enter details.
In this form, I want to handle the ESC key using jQuery.
If any input tags have focus, keydown event will trigger. If the focus is on the form but not on any input tags then it will not trigger keydown event.
Here is my code:
$("#NewTicket").keydown(function(e) {
var unicode = e.keyCode ? e.keyCode : e.charCode
if (unicode == 27)
{
if (confirm("Are you sure you want to cancel?"))
return true
else
return false
}
});

Just add an id,class to the form
<form id="form">
....
and now do this :
$("#NewTicket,#form").keydown(function(e)
{
var unicode=e.keyCode? e.keyCode : e.charCode
if(unicode == 27)
{
if (confirm("Are you sure you want to cancel?"))
return true
else
return false
}
)};
This should work

You can't focus on forms. If you wan't to handle keydown on elements that don't get focus (such as divs or forms) you have to bind it to the document.
Turns out that jQuery automatically adds :focus selector which enables you to find the focused element by using $(':focus')

I believe that if you put your form in an element made focusable using tabIndex, like , or this focusable div is the container element inside the form, then you can bind the keyDown to this div instead. It works cross browser as far as I've tested but I've not seen this solution discussed much, so curious as to anyone's comments about this.

I know this is an old question but someone still might be looking for an answer.
Usually, I do capture key down at global level then forward it to a function and handle it there. For your needs, you can get nodeName. (Tested in FF, Chrome)
$(document).keydown((e)=>{//Capture Key
if(["INPUT","TEXTAREA"].indexOf(e.target.nodeName)!==-1){//If input in focus
console.log("INPUT FOCUSED",e.code,e.keyCode);
if(e.keyCode==27 || e.code=="Escape"){//Capture Escape key
console.log('ESC');
}
}
});

Triggering onclick event using middle click

I am using the onclick event of a hashed link to open a <div> as a pop up. But the middle click does not trigger the onclick event but only takes the href attribute value of the link and loads the URL in a new page. How can I use middle click to open the <div> as a popup?

EDIT
This answer has been deprecated and doesn't work on Chrome. You will most probably end up using the auxclick event, but please refer to other answers below.
/EDIT
beggs' answer is correct, but it sounds like you want to prevent the default action of the middle click. In which case, include the following
$("#foo").on('click', function(e) {
if (e.which == 2) {
e.preventDefault();
alert("middle button");
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<a id="foo" href="http://example.com">middle click me</a>
preventDefault() will stop the default action of the event.

For the middle-click / mouse-wheel button to be detected, you have to use the event auxclick. E.g:
Then in your script file
function func(e) {
if (e.button == 1) {
alert("middle button clicked")
}
}
If you want to do it from JavaScript (without using the HTML attribute onauxclick), then you addEventListener to the element:
let myLink = document.getElementById('myLink')
myLink.addEventListener('auxclick', function(e) {
if (e.button == 1) {
alert("middle button clicked")
}
})
<a id="myLink" href="http://example.com">middle click me</a>
Checkout the mdn page about the auxclick event here.

You can use
event.button
to identify which mouse button was clicked.
Returns an integer value indicating the button that changed state.
0 for standard 'click', usually left button
1 for middle button, usually wheel-click
2 for right button, usually right-click
Note that this convention is not followed in Internet Explorer: see
QuirksMode for details.
The order of buttons may be different depending on how the pointing device has been configured.
Also read
Which mouse button has been clicked?
There are two properties for finding
out which mouse button has been
clicked: which and button. Please note
that these properties don’t always
work on a click event. To safely
detect a mouse button you have to use
the mousedown or mouseup events.
document.getElementById('foo').addEventListener('click', function(e) {
console.log(e.button);
e.preventDefault();
});
<a id="foo" href="http://example.com">middle click me</a>

This question is a bit old, but i found a solution:
$(window).on('mousedown', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
e.preventDefault();
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
middle click me
Chrome not fire "click" event for the mouse wheel
Work in FF and Chrome

I usually hate when people offer alternatives instead of solutions, but since solutions have already been provided I'm going to break my own rule.
Websites where the middle-click feature is overridden tend to really, really bug me. I'm usually middle-clicking because I want to open the new content in a new tab while having an unobstructed view of the current content. Any time you can leave the middle-click functionality alone and make the relevant content available through the HREF attribute of your clicked element, I strongly believe that's what you should do.

jQuery provides a .which attribute on the event that gives the click button id from left to right as 1, 2, 3. In this case you want 2.
Usage:
$("#foo").live('click', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
alert("middle button");
}
});
Adamantium's answer will also work but you need to watch out for IE as he notes:
$("#foo").live('click', function(e) {
if((!$.browser.msie && e.button == 1) || ($.browser.msie && e.button == 2)) {
alert("middle button");
}
});
Also remember the .button attribute is 0-indexed not 1-indexed like .which.

The proper method is to use .on, as .live has been deprecated and then removed from jQuery:
$("#foo").on('click', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
e.preventDefault();
alert("middle button");
}
});
Or if you want the "live" like feel and #foo is not on your page on document start:
$(document).on('click', '#foo', function(e) {
if( e.which == 2 ) {
e.preventDefault();
alert("middle button");
}
});
original answer

I know I'm late for the party, but for those still having problems with handling the middle click, check if you delegate the event. In case of delegation, the click event does not fire. Compare:
This works for middle clicks:
$('a').on('click', function(){
console.log('middle click');
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
middle click me
This doesn't work for middle clicks:
$('div').on('click', 'a', function(){
alert('middle click');
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
middle click here
</div>
If you still need to track the middle click using event delegation, the only way around as stated in the corresponding jQuery ticket, is to use mousedown or mouseup instead. Like so:
This works for delegated middle clicks:
$('div').on('mouseup', 'a', function(){
console.log('middle click');
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
middle click me
</div>
See it online here.