Jquery: detect if middle or right mouse button is clicked, if so, do this:

Solution 1:

You may want to trap the mousedown event, and you also need to prevent the oncontextmenu event to stop the context menu from coming up during the right click event.

$("h2").live('mousedown', function(e) { 
   if( (e.which == 1) ) {
     alert("left button");
   }if( (e.which == 3) ) {
     alert("right button");
   }else if( (e.which == 2) ) {
      alert("middle button"); 
   }
   e.preventDefault();
}).live('contextmenu', function(e){
   e.preventDefault();
});

UPDATE: .live() has been deprecated since jQuery 1.9. Use .on() instead.

$("h2").on('mousedown', function(e) { 
  if (e.which == 1) {
    alert("left button");
  } else if (e.which == 3) {
    alert("right button");
  } else if (e.which == 2) {
    alert("middle button");
  }
  e.preventDefault();
});

Solution 2:

I've noticed some oddities in the past with using the click event for anything but a regular left-click. I don't recall the details, but if you change "click" to "mousedown" or "mouseup" you should have better results.

Solution 3:

Now button has been fouled up beyond all recognition. According to W3C its values should be:

• Left button – 0
• Middle button – 1
• Right button – 2

According to Microsoft its values should be:

• Left button – 1
• Middle button – 4
• Right button – 2

No doubt the Microsoft model is better than W3C’s. 0 should mean “no button pressed”, anything else is illogical.

From http://www.quirksmode.org/js/events_properties.html