Rendering Context Menu for Grid Rows and Columns

Updated on Feb 24, 2026

Environment

Product

Progress® Kendo UI Grid

Description

How can I render a context menu for the rows and columns of the Kendo UI for Angular Grid?

Solution

Kendo UI for Angular provides the ContextMenu component which supports hierarchical binding with the Grid out of the box.

This article demonstrates a custom implementation using the Popup component for specific use cases that require custom behavior.

To create a custom context menu implementation, you can use the Kendo UI Popup component for Angular.

The following example demonstrates how to utilize the cellClick event of the Grid and the Popup components. To discriminate between regular clicks and context menu events, the example checks the cellClick.type field.

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