# Context Menu on Cytoscape

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/context-menu-on-cytoscape/78171>\
**Category:** Dash Python\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [August 30, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/context-menu-on-cytoscape/78171 "2023-08-30T18:39:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![slooshwoosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@slooshwoosh](https://community.plotly.com/u/slooshwoosh)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/context-menu-on-cytoscape/78171/1 "2023-08-30T18:39:32Z")

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Sorry for reviving this thread a little. But I am struggling to follow your outline here for getting a working context menu to appear on a right click. Do you know where I might find an example of a context menu being used (for example, I am trying to get a context menu to appear in a cytoscape component, and, as a working example for my own knowledge, change the color of a node from one of a few options from the menu. But I am struggling to even get the position of the right-click event to be stored properly…)?

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**Author:** ![jinnyzor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/jinnyzor/32/21194_2.png) [@jinnyzor](https://community.plotly.com/u/jinnyzor)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/context-menu-on-cytoscape/78171/2 "2023-08-30T19:49:30Z")

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Hello @slooshwoosh,

Welcome to the community!

Could you please post an example of what you are trying to do?

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**Author:** ![slooshwoosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@slooshwoosh](https://community.plotly.com/u/slooshwoosh)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/context-menu-on-cytoscape/78171/4 "2023-09-23T16:29:50Z")

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Thanks for the response! What I am trying to do is understand how I might add a right-click context-menu to to a Cytoscape component in a way that let’s me to use python functions as callbacks for the context-menu options. Really, I am hoping for an (ideally) working example of how to accomplish this. So, as an self-educational task I have been trying to add a context menu to a simple network graph that would allow me to, say, change the color of a node based on the selected option in the context-menu. But I haven’t had any luck. And was hoping someone could point me towards an example that utilizes a right-click context menu in a cytoscape component. Is such a thing possible?