How to add a right-click menu in Electron that has "Inspect Element" option like Chrome?
Electron has a built-in function called win.inspectElement(x, y).
Including this function as an option in a right-click context menu is possible by creating an Electron Menu
with a MenuItem
. Call the following in the client (aka renderer process) Javascript:
// Importing this adds a right-click menu with 'Inspect Element' option
const remote = require('remote')
const Menu = remote.require('menu')
const MenuItem = remote.require('menu-item')
let rightClickPosition = null
const menu = new Menu()
const menuItem = new MenuItem({
label: 'Inspect Element',
click: () => {
remote.getCurrentWindow().inspectElement(rightClickPosition.x, rightClickPosition.y)
}
})
menu.append(menuItem)
window.addEventListener('contextmenu', (e) => {
e.preventDefault()
rightClickPosition = {x: e.x, y: e.y}
menu.popup(remote.getCurrentWindow())
}, false)
Try electron-context-menu. It adds inspect element
, copy
and paste
.