oncontextmenu window.event = null

[jmac726]

I am trying to create a custom right-click menu in javascript, and I can't get the coordinates of the mouse when using oncontextmenu in IE7. I have it working fine in firefox, but in IE the window.event comes back as null.

checkbox.oncontextmenu = function(event) {
    if (event == null)
        event = window.event;
    
    alert("event: "+event);
    alert("window.event: "+window.event);

    /* Handle right-click */
};

I understand that IE does not pass along the event, but is there any reason why both of my alerts (specifically window.event) print null?

[Dormilich]

calling your variable event could be troublesome, because event == window.event