Custom context menu in Angular - Guide - Handsontable Documentation

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# Overview

The following is an implementation of the @handsontable/angular component with a custom context menu added.

# Example

// app.component.ts
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import Handsontable from 'handsontable/base';
import { ContextMenu } from 'handsontable/plugins/contextMenu';
import { createSpreadsheetData } from './helpers';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `
  <div>
    <hot-table [settings]="hotSettings"></hot-table>
  </div>
  `,
})
class AppComponent {
  hotSettings: Handsontable.GridSettings = {
    data: createSpreadsheetData(5, 5),
    colHeaders: true,
    contextMenu: {
      items: {
        'row_above': {
          name: 'Insert row above this one (custom name)'
        },
        'row_below': {},
        'separator': ContextMenu.SEPARATOR,
        'clear_custom': {
          name: 'Clear all cells (custom)',
          callback: function() {
            this.clear();
          }
        }
      }
    },
    height: 'auto',
    licenseKey: 'non-commercial-and-evaluation'
  };
}

// app.module.ts
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { HotTableModule } from '@handsontable/angular';
import { registerAllModules } from 'handsontable/registry';

// register Handsontable's modules
registerAllModules();

@NgModule({
  imports:      [ BrowserModule, HotTableModule ],
  declarations: [ AppComponent ],
  bootstrap:    [ AppComponent ]
})
class AppModule { }

// bootstrap
import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';

platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule).catch(err => { console.error(err) });

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.0/dist/handsontable.full.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/handsontable@12.0/dist/handsontable.full.min.css" /> 
<script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/12.0/scripts/fixer.js"></script>
<script src="https://handsontable.com/docs/12.0/scripts/helpers.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/rxjs@6/bundles/rxjs.umd.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/core-js@2/client/core.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/zone.js@0.9/dist/zone.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@angular/compiler@8/bundles/compiler.umd.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@angular/core@8/bundles/core.umd.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@angular/common@8/bundles/common.umd.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@angular/platform-browser@8/bundles/platform-browser.umd.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@angular/platform-browser-dynamic@8/bundles/platform-browser-dynamic.umd.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@handsontable/angular@12.0/bundles/handsontable-angular.umd.min.js"></script>

<app-root></app-root>

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