1. JavaFX Tutorial
2. JavaFX Overview
3. Your First JavaFX Application
4. JavaFX Stage
5. JavaFX Scene
6. JavaFX Node
7. JavaFX Properties
8. JavaFX FXML
9. JavaFX CSS Styling
10. JavaFX ImageView
11. JavaFX Text
12. JavaFX Fonts
13. JavaFX Hyperlink
14. JavaFX Label
15. JavaFX Button
16. JavaFX MenuButton
17. JavaFX SplitMenuButton
18. JavaFX ToggleButton
19. JavaFX RadioButton
20. JavaFX CheckBox
21. JavaFX ChoiceBox
22. JavaFX ComboBox
23. JavaFX ListView
24. JavaFX DatePicker
25. JavaFX ColorPicker
26. JavaFX TextField
27. JavaFX PasswordField
28. JavaFX Slider
29. JavaFX TextArea
30. JavaFX ToolBar
31. JavaFX Tooltip
32. JavaFX ProgressBar
33. JavaFX FileChooser
34. JavaFX DirectoryChooser
35. JavaFX Accordion
36. JavaFX TitledPane
37. JavaFX SplitPane
38. JavaFX TabPane
39. JavaFX ScrollPane
40. JavaFX Group
41. JavaFX Region
42. JavaFX Pane
43. JavaFX HBox
44. JavaFX VBox
45. JavaFX Separator
46. JavaFX FlowPane
47. JavaFX TilePane
48. JavaFX GridPane
49. JavaFX MenuBar
50. JavaFX ContexMenu
51. JavaFX WebView
52. JavaFX PieChart
53. JavaFX TableView
54. JavaFX TreeView
55. JavaFX TreeTableView
56. JavaFX HTMLEditor
57. JavaFX Pagination
58. JavaFX BarChart
59. JavaFX StackedBarChart
60. JavaFX ScatterChart
61. JavaFX LineChart
62. JavaFX AreaChart
63. JavaFX StackedAreaChart
64. JavaFX Color
65. JavaFX 2D
66. JavaFX Effects
67. JavaFX 3D
68. JavaFX Transformation
69. JavaFX Animation
70. JavaFX Media - JavaFX Video and Audio Support
71. JavaFX Canvas
72. JavaFX Drag and Drop
73. JavaFX Concurrency

• Full ContextMenu Example
• Create a ContextMenu
• Add Menu Items to the ContextMenu
• Add ContextMenu to JavaFX Control

The JavaFX ContextMenu component provides a standard right click menu for JavaFX controls. The JavaFX ContextMenu is represented by the class javafx.scene.control.ContextMenu. You create a ContextMenu instance and attach it to the JavaFX control you want the ContextMenu to be active for. Here is a screenshot of a JavaFX TextArea with a ContextMenu attached and shown:

Full ContextMenu Example

Here is a full JavaFX ContextMenu example to give you a quick overview of how using the ContextMenu looks:

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.*;
import javafx.scene.layout.VBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

public class ContextMenuExample extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {

        ContextMenu contextMenu = new ContextMenu();
        MenuItem menuItem1 = new MenuItem("Choice 1");
        MenuItem menuItem2 = new MenuItem("Choice 2");
        MenuItem menuItem3 = new MenuItem("Choice 3");

        menuItem3.setOnAction((event) -> {
            System.out.println("Choice 3 clicked!");
        });

        contextMenu.getItems().addAll(menuItem1,menuItem2,menuItem3);

        TextArea textArea = new TextArea();

        textArea.setContextMenu(contextMenu);

        VBox vBox = new VBox(textArea);
        Scene scene = new Scene(vBox);

        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.setTitle("JavaFX App");

        primaryStage.show();
    }
}

Create a ContextMenu

To use a JavaFX ContextMenu you must first create a ContextMenu instance. Here is an example of creating a JavaFX ContextMenu:

ContextMenu contextMenu = new ContextMenu();

Add Menu Items to the ContextMenu

The ContextMenu needs one or more MenuItem instances which are displayed in the menu. To detect which menu item was clicked, you add listeners to the MenuItem instances. Here is an example of adding MenuItem instances to a ContextMenu:

ContextMenu contextMenu = new ContextMenu();

MenuItem menuItem1 = new MenuItem("Choice 1");
MenuItem menuItem2 = new MenuItem("Choice 2");
MenuItem menuItem3 = new MenuItem("Choice 3");

menuItem3.setOnAction((event) -> {
    System.out.println("Choice 3 clicked!");
});

contextMenu.getItems().addAll(menuItem1,menuItem2,menuItem3);

Notice how there is an onAction listener set on the third MenuItem, using setOnAction(), passing Java Lambda Expression as listener. If this MenuItem is clicked, the action listener is executed.

Add ContextMenu to JavaFX Control

A JavaFX ContextMenu needs to be attached to a JavaFX control to be active. You add a ContextMenu to a control via the setContextMenu() of a JavaFX control. Here is an example of adding a JavaFX ContextMenu to a JavaFX control:

TextArea textArea = new TextArea();

textArea.setContextMenu(contextMenu);