Context Menu

Displays a menu located at the pointer, triggered by a right click or a long press.

"use client"

import * as React from "react"
import { cn } from "cn"
import { ContextMenu as ContextMenuPrimitive } from "@animate-ui/react/primitives/radix-ui"
import { AnimateUIProvider } from "@animate-ui/react/provider"

import { ArrowRight01Icon, Tick02Icon } from "@hugeicons/core-free-icons"
import { HugeiconsIcon } from "@hugeicons/react"

function ContextMenu({
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Root>) {
  return <ContextMenuPrimitive.Root data-slot="context-menu" {...props} />
}

function ContextMenuTrigger({
  className,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Trigger>) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.Trigger
      data-slot="context-menu-trigger"
      className={cn("select-none", className)}
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

function ContextMenuGroup({
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Group>) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.Group data-slot="context-menu-group" {...props} />
  )
}

function ContextMenuPortal({
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Portal>) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.Portal data-slot="context-menu-portal" {...props} />
  )
}

function ContextMenuSub({
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Sub>) {
  return <ContextMenuPrimitive.Sub data-slot="context-menu-sub" {...props} />
}

function ContextMenuRadioGroup({
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.RadioGroup>) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.RadioGroup
      data-slot="context-menu-radio-group"
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

function ContextMenuContent({
  className,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Content> & {
  side?: "top" | "right" | "bottom" | "left"
}) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.Portal>
      <ContextMenuPrimitive.Content
        data-slot="context-menu-content"
        className={cn(
          "ring-foreground/10 bg-popover text-popover-foreground min-w-36 rounded-lg p-1 shadow-md ring-1 animate-none! relative bg-popover/70 before:pointer-events-none before:absolute before:inset-0 before:-z-1 before:rounded-[inherit] before:backdrop-blur-2xl before:backdrop-saturate-150 **:data-[slot$=-item]:focus:bg-foreground/10 **:data-[slot$=-item]:data-highlighted:bg-foreground/10 **:data-[slot$=-separator]:bg-foreground/5 **:data-[slot$=-trigger]:focus:bg-foreground/10 **:data-[slot$=-trigger]:aria-expanded:bg-foreground/10! **:data-[variant=destructive]:focus:bg-foreground/10! **:data-[variant=destructive]:text-accent-foreground! **:data-[variant=destructive]:**:text-accent-foreground! z-50 max-h-(--radix-context-menu-content-available-height) origin-(--radix-context-menu-content-transform-origin) overflow-x-hidden overflow-y-auto",
          className
        )}
        {...props}
      />
    </ContextMenuPrimitive.Portal>
  )
}

function ContextMenuItem({
  className,
  inset,
  variant = "default",
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Item> & {
  inset?: boolean
  variant?: "default" | "destructive"
}) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.Item
      data-slot="context-menu-item"
      data-inset={inset}
      data-variant={variant}
      className={cn(
        "focus:bg-accent focus:text-accent-foreground data-[variant=destructive]:text-destructive data-[variant=destructive]:focus:bg-destructive/10 dark:data-[variant=destructive]:focus:bg-destructive/20 data-[variant=destructive]:focus:text-destructive data-[variant=destructive]:*:[svg]:text-destructive focus:*:[svg]:text-accent-foreground gap-1.5 rounded-md px-1.5 py-1 text-sm data-inset:pl-7 [&_svg:not([class*='size-'])]:size-4 group/context-menu-item relative flex cursor-default items-center outline-hidden select-none data-disabled:pointer-events-none data-disabled:opacity-50 [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:shrink-0",
        className
      )}
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

function ContextMenuSubTrigger({
  className,
  inset,
  children,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.SubTrigger> & {
  inset?: boolean
}) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.SubTrigger
      data-slot="context-menu-sub-trigger"
      data-inset={inset}
      className={cn(
        "focus:bg-accent focus:text-accent-foreground data-open:bg-accent data-open:text-accent-foreground gap-1.5 rounded-md px-1.5 py-1 text-sm data-inset:pl-7 [&_svg:not([class*='size-'])]:size-4 flex cursor-default items-center outline-hidden select-none [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:shrink-0",
        className
      )}
      {...props}
    >
      {children}
      <HugeiconsIcon icon={ArrowRight01Icon} strokeWidth={2}
        className="ml-auto"
      />
    </ContextMenuPrimitive.SubTrigger>
  )
}

function ContextMenuSubContent({
  className,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.SubContent>) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.SubContent
      data-slot="context-menu-sub-content"
      className={cn(
        "bg-popover text-popover-foreground min-w-32 rounded-lg border p-1 shadow-lg animate-none! relative bg-popover/70 before:pointer-events-none before:absolute before:inset-0 before:-z-1 before:rounded-[inherit] before:backdrop-blur-2xl before:backdrop-saturate-150 **:data-[slot$=-item]:focus:bg-foreground/10 **:data-[slot$=-item]:data-highlighted:bg-foreground/10 **:data-[slot$=-separator]:bg-foreground/5 **:data-[slot$=-trigger]:focus:bg-foreground/10 **:data-[slot$=-trigger]:aria-expanded:bg-foreground/10! **:data-[variant=destructive]:focus:bg-foreground/10! **:data-[variant=destructive]:text-accent-foreground! **:data-[variant=destructive]:**:text-accent-foreground! z-50 origin-(--radix-context-menu-content-transform-origin) overflow-hidden",
        className
      )}
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

function ContextMenuCheckboxItem({
  className,
  children,
  checked,
  inset,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.CheckboxItem> & {
  inset?: boolean
}) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.CheckboxItem
      data-slot="context-menu-checkbox-item"
      data-inset={inset}
      className={cn(
        "focus:bg-accent focus:text-accent-foreground gap-1.5 rounded-md py-1 pr-8 pl-1.5 text-sm data-inset:pl-7 [&_svg:not([class*='size-'])]:size-4 relative flex cursor-default items-center outline-hidden select-none data-disabled:pointer-events-none data-disabled:opacity-50 [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:shrink-0",
        className
      )}
      checked={checked}
      {...props}
    >
      <span className="absolute right-2 pointer-events-none">
        <ContextMenuPrimitive.ItemIndicator>
          <HugeiconsIcon icon={Tick02Icon} strokeWidth={2}
          />
        </ContextMenuPrimitive.ItemIndicator>
      </span>
      {children}
    </ContextMenuPrimitive.CheckboxItem>
  )
}

function ContextMenuRadioItem({
  className,
  children,
  inset,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.RadioItem> & {
  inset?: boolean
}) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.RadioItem
      data-slot="context-menu-radio-item"
      data-inset={inset}
      className={cn(
        "focus:bg-accent focus:text-accent-foreground gap-1.5 rounded-md py-1 pr-8 pl-1.5 text-sm data-inset:pl-7 [&_svg:not([class*='size-'])]:size-4 relative flex cursor-default items-center outline-hidden select-none data-disabled:pointer-events-none data-disabled:opacity-50 [&_svg]:pointer-events-none [&_svg]:shrink-0",
        className
      )}
      {...props}
    >
      <span className="absolute right-2 pointer-events-none">
        <ContextMenuPrimitive.ItemIndicator>
          <HugeiconsIcon icon={Tick02Icon} strokeWidth={2}
          />
        </ContextMenuPrimitive.ItemIndicator>
      </span>
      {children}
    </ContextMenuPrimitive.RadioItem>
  )
}

function ContextMenuLabel({
  className,
  inset,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Label> & {
  inset?: boolean
}) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.Label
      data-slot="context-menu-label"
      data-inset={inset}
      className={cn("text-muted-foreground px-1.5 py-1 text-xs font-medium data-inset:pl-7", className)}
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

function ContextMenuSeparator({
  className,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<typeof ContextMenuPrimitive.Separator>) {
  return (
    <ContextMenuPrimitive.Separator
      data-slot="context-menu-separator"
      className={cn("bg-border -mx-1 my-1 h-px", className)}
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

function ContextMenuShortcut({
  className,
  ...props
}: React.ComponentProps<"span">) {
  return (
    <span
      data-slot="context-menu-shortcut"
      className={cn("text-muted-foreground group-focus/context-menu-item:text-accent-foreground ml-auto text-xs tracking-widest", className)}
      {...props}
    />
  )
}

export {
  ContextMenu,
  ContextMenuTrigger,
  ContextMenuContent,
  ContextMenuItem,
  ContextMenuCheckboxItem,
  ContextMenuRadioItem,
  ContextMenuLabel,
  ContextMenuSeparator,
  ContextMenuShortcut,
  ContextMenuGroup,
  ContextMenuPortal,
  ContextMenuSub,
  ContextMenuSubContent,
  ContextMenuSubTrigger,
  ContextMenuRadioGroup,
}

export default function ContextMenuDemo({
  checkAnimation = "draw",
}: {
  checkAnimation?: "draw" | "pop"
}) {
  const [showBookmarks, setShowBookmarks] = React.useState(true)
  const [showFullUrls, setShowFullUrls] = React.useState(false)
  const [user, setUser] = React.useState("pedro")

  return (
    <AnimateUIProvider checkAnimation={checkAnimation}>
      <ContextMenu>
        <ContextMenuTrigger className="flex aspect-video w-full max-w-xs items-center justify-center rounded-xl border border-dashed text-sm">
          <span className="hidden pointer-fine:inline-block">
            Right click here
          </span>
          <span className="hidden pointer-coarse:inline-block">
            Long press here
          </span>
        </ContextMenuTrigger>
        <ContextMenuContent className="w-48">
          <ContextMenuGroup>
            <ContextMenuItem>
              Back
              <ContextMenuShortcut>⌘[</ContextMenuShortcut>
            </ContextMenuItem>
            <ContextMenuItem disabled>
              Forward
              <ContextMenuShortcut>⌘]</ContextMenuShortcut>
            </ContextMenuItem>
            <ContextMenuItem>
              Reload
              <ContextMenuShortcut>⌘R</ContextMenuShortcut>
            </ContextMenuItem>
            <ContextMenuSub>
              <ContextMenuSubTrigger>More Tools</ContextMenuSubTrigger>
              <ContextMenuSubContent className="w-44">
                <ContextMenuGroup>
                  <ContextMenuItem>Save Page...</ContextMenuItem>
                  <ContextMenuItem>Create Shortcut...</ContextMenuItem>
                  <ContextMenuItem>Name Window...</ContextMenuItem>
                </ContextMenuGroup>
                <ContextMenuSeparator />
                <ContextMenuGroup>
                  <ContextMenuItem>Developer Tools</ContextMenuItem>
                </ContextMenuGroup>
                <ContextMenuSeparator />
                <ContextMenuGroup>
                  <ContextMenuItem variant="destructive">Delete</ContextMenuItem>
                </ContextMenuGroup>
              </ContextMenuSubContent>
            </ContextMenuSub>
          </ContextMenuGroup>
          <ContextMenuSeparator />
          <ContextMenuGroup>
            <ContextMenuCheckboxItem
              checked={showBookmarks}
              onCheckedChange={setShowBookmarks}
            >
              Show Bookmarks
            </ContextMenuCheckboxItem>
            <ContextMenuCheckboxItem
              checked={showFullUrls}
              onCheckedChange={setShowFullUrls}
            >
              Show Full URLs
            </ContextMenuCheckboxItem>
          </ContextMenuGroup>
          <ContextMenuSeparator />
          <ContextMenuGroup>
            <ContextMenuRadioGroup value={user} onValueChange={setUser}>
              <ContextMenuLabel>People</ContextMenuLabel>
              <ContextMenuRadioItem value="pedro">
                Pedro Duarte
              </ContextMenuRadioItem>
              <ContextMenuRadioItem value="colm">Colm Tuite</ContextMenuRadioItem>
            </ContextMenuRadioGroup>
          </ContextMenuGroup>
        </ContextMenuContent>
      </ContextMenu>
    </AnimateUIProvider>
  )
}

Installation

Install the packages

npm install @animate-ui/react motion
pnpm add @animate-ui/react motion
yarn add @animate-ui/react motion
bun add @animate-ui/react motion

Add the shadcn/ui component

npx shadcn@latest add context-menu
pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add context-menu
yarn dlx shadcn@latest add context-menu
bun x shadcn@latest add context-menu

Animate it

The CLI finds your shadcn/ui components through components.json, swaps their primitive imports for Animate UI's and removes the CSS animation classes Motion replaces.

npx @animate-ui/cli@latest animate context-menu
pnpm dlx @animate-ui/cli@latest animate context-menu
yarn dlx @animate-ui/cli@latest animate context-menu
bun x @animate-ui/cli@latest animate context-menu

Usage

Import the primitive from Animate UI instead of Radix UI. Everything else stays the same.

import { ContextMenu } from '@animate-ui/react/primitives/radix-ui';

export function CanvasMenu() {
  return (
    <ContextMenu.Root>
      <ContextMenu.Trigger>Right click here</ContextMenu.Trigger>
      <ContextMenu.Portal>
        <ContextMenu.Content>
          <ContextMenu.Item>Undo</ContextMenu.Item>
          <ContextMenu.Item>Duplicate</ContextMenu.Item>
          <ContextMenu.Separator />
          <ContextMenu.Item>Delete</ContextMenu.Item>
        </ContextMenu.Content>
      </ContextMenu.Portal>
    </ContextMenu.Root>
  );
}

Coming from the @radix-ui/react-context-menu package? Use the subpath: import * as ContextMenuPrimitive from '@animate-ui/react/primitives/radix-ui/context-menu'.

Check animation

Checkbox and radio items show their check in an ItemIndicator: it draws itself when the item is checked, and erases itself when it's unchecked (a radio item's while the new one draws). With animation="pop", it pops in from half its size and shrinks back out instead, and a radio item's check glides to the newly checked item:

import * as React from 'react';
import { ContextMenu } from '@animate-ui/react/primitives/radix-ui';

export function CanvasMenu() {
  const [showGrid, setShowGrid] = React.useState(true);
  const [zoom, setZoom] = React.useState('fit');

  return (
    <ContextMenu.Root>
      <ContextMenu.Trigger>Right click here</ContextMenu.Trigger>
      <ContextMenu.Portal>
        <ContextMenu.Content>
          <ContextMenu.CheckboxItem
            checked={showGrid}
            onCheckedChange={setShowGrid}
          >
            <ContextMenu.ItemIndicator animation="pop">
              <CheckIcon />
            </ContextMenu.ItemIndicator>
            Show grid
          </ContextMenu.CheckboxItem>
          <ContextMenu.Separator />
          <ContextMenu.RadioGroup value={zoom} onValueChange={setZoom}>
            <ContextMenu.RadioItem value="fit">
              <ContextMenu.ItemIndicator animation="pop">
                <CheckIcon />
              </ContextMenu.ItemIndicator>
              Zoom to fit
            </ContextMenu.RadioItem>
            <ContextMenu.RadioItem value="100">
              <ContextMenu.ItemIndicator animation="pop">
                <CheckIcon />
              </ContextMenu.ItemIndicator>
              Zoom to 100%
            </ContextMenu.RadioItem>
          </ContextMenu.RadioGroup>
        </ContextMenu.Content>
      </ContextMenu.Portal>
    </ContextMenu.Root>
  );
}

The same demo with checkAnimation="pop" (its Controls switch it back to draw):

To pop every check of your app at once (checkboxes, menus, selects, comboboxes), set checkAnimation="pop" on an AnimateUIProvider instead.

Animation

Radix's Context Menu has no Animate UI v1 counterpart: it moves like v1's Dropdown Menu.

  • Content fades and scales in from 0.9, from the pointer (--radix-context-menu-content-transform-origin, set inline so it works without styles), in 220ms ({ duration: 0.22, ease: [0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1] }, a soft ease-out), and closes the same way before it unmounts.
  • SubContent grows from the side of its trigger the same way.
  • The highlight: one surface glides behind the highlighted item on a spring (stiffness 500, damping 40), following the pointer and the arrow keys alike, and into submenus. Moving to another item, it carries on from where it is, at its speed: however fast the pointer or the arrow keys go, there's one highlight on screen. It only fades in (200ms, on CSS's ease) when it appears from nothing, and its color changes the same way when the item's highlighted background differs from the previous one's. It glides on the compositor (a Web Animation of transform), so a busy main thread, a submenu opening for instance, doesn't stall it. Into a submenu or back out of it, each menu clips its own part, as in v1: the previous surface glides along with the new one, the same box on screen, so the two make one highlight crossing from one menu into the other; the entering part fades in as it glides. When the pointer leaves the menu, it stays on the last item. It wears the item's own highlighted background (focus:bg-accent, data-highlighted:bg-accent…), read from your styles: the item's background is cleared while it's highlighted (or still has the focus, or its submenu is open), and a focus: background is read again once the item has the focus; its text colors stay.
  • ItemIndicator: an item's check draws itself like a Checkbox's check (its stroke and opacity in 0.3s on Motion's easeOut, at once: there's no box to fill first) when the item is checked, and erases itself in 0.3s when it's unchecked (it stays mounted for that). Checking another radio item erases the old check while the new one draws itself. Only checking and unchecking animate: opening the menu shows its checks at rest, and closing it leaves them as they are.
  • With animation="pop" on the ItemIndicator (or checkAnimation="pop" on an AnimateUIProvider), checks pop instead: in from half their size out of a 2px blur (a spring, stiffness 500, damping 24), and back into their blur in 0.15s. A radio item's check doesn't pop from one item to another: it glides from the item it leaves to the newly checked one, on the highlight's spring (stiffness 500, damping 40), like a select's. The demo's Controls switch between the two.
  • Choosing an item closes the menu (Radix's default): when its check changes (a checkbox item's, or another radio item's than the checked one), the menu holds still first (250ms while a check draws itself, 150ms while it pops or glides), so the change is seen, then fades out. Escape and outside clicks don't wait.
  • When the menu closes with focus inside, focus goes back to where it was before the menu opened at once instead of after the exit, and the leaving menu ignores the pointer and can't dismiss anything.
  • With forceMount (on the Content or the Portal), the closed content stays in the DOM: it plays its exit, then is hidden (visibility: hidden). It still opens on a right click or a long press: closed, it's a dismissable layer already, and Radix would take the pointer down that opens it for one outside it, closing it at once.
  • Under reduced motion, nothing scales or glides: the menu and the checks only fade, and the menu doesn't hold; the highlight jumps from item to item and only fades in when it appears.

API Reference

Every part takes exactly the props of Radix UI's Context Menu. Animate UI adds the animation props below.

Root, Trigger, Portal, Group, Label, RadioGroup, Separator, Arrow, Sub

Radix UI props only. They are not animated.

Item, CheckboxItem, RadioItem, SubTrigger

Radix UI props only. They take part in the highlight; it needs nothing more.

Content, SubContent

Radix UI props, plus:

PropTypeDefault
transition?
Transition{ duration: 0.22, ease: [0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1] }
exitTransition?
Transitiontransition

ItemIndicator

Radix UI props, plus:

PropTypeDefault
animation?
'draw' | 'pop'the closest AnimateUIProvider's checkAnimation, else 'draw'
transition?
Transitiondraw: 0.3s on Motion's easeOut both ways (a Checkbox's, without its delay); pop: a spring (stiffness 500, damping 24) in, 0.15s out, and the highlight's spring (stiffness 500, damping 40) for the glide

Built by Skyleen. The source code is available on GitHub.

Last updated: 10/18/2026

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