A context menu is the menu you get by right-clicking, or by pressing and holding for half a second on touch. Each one is scoped to whatever you clicked, so it only ever offers what makes sense there. On a phone the menus open as a sheet from the bottom of the screen.
On an element
The element menu is where an element is styled and described. It is built from collapsible sections, with Style, Animation (when it has text) and Text opening to the side, and which ones appear depends on what you clicked. Along its top, a row of buttons: Assign Action, Add Comment, Add Link and Add Note at the left (tinted when the element already has one), and Clear Styles at the right. Below them, for a shape:
- Layer: Bring to Front, Send to Back, moving it to another layer, and its opacity.
- Size, Shape (change the kind of shape) and Rotation.
- Style: one-click presets, Colours (text, background and border, with Reset to Theme) and Border.
- Animation: a looping effect for the shape and, separately, for its text, with speed and repeat (see Animations).
- Text (once it has text): font, size, padding, alignment and markers.
An arrow's menu has Line (straight, curved or angled, pattern and thickness) and Pointer (its arrowheads) instead of the shape sections, and images, tables, icons and data elements each add a section of their own.
The everyday verbs live elsewhere: Duplicate, layer order, Lock and Delete are on the selection toolbar, and cut, copy and paste are on the keyboard (see Copy and Paste). Right-click a multi-selection and you get the same kind of menu for the whole group.
On a desktop pointer, the style controls preview on hover: rest the pointer on a colour, border, preset, shape, rotation, marker, alignment, or size tile and the selection shows the change live; it only sticks when you click, and moving away reverts it. Comparing looks costs nothing.
On empty canvas
Right-click empty canvas and you get the tab menu (below) with a labelled Paste row straight under the quick actions, since a right-click on empty space is usually "paste what I copied". Pasted elements land just offset from where they were copied, selected and ready to drag into place.
On a tab
Right-click a tab in the tab bar, or use its ⋯ button, for the tab menu:
- A row of quick actions: Rename, Duplicate, Paste, Side by Side (Close Side by Side while a split is open; not on a phone or with only one tab), Lock Tab (or Unlock Tab), and Delete, which asks you to confirm and is unavailable while the tab is locked or when it is the canvas's only tab.
- Then full-width rows, in groups split by a line: Organise in Tab Folder (a tab folder) and Add to Another Canvas (link it into another of your canvases, so it stays one live tab and edits show in both places); Import, Export and Clear. A tab's editor mode is not in this menu: it is chosen on the tab's start while the tab is empty.
The layout tidiers, Auto Layout and Auto-align, are behind the Tidy Up button at the start of the bottom-right cluster (in Diagram mode) and in the command palette, rather than in this menu. See Layout Cleanup.
A tab's theme and canvas background are not in this menu: they are behind the Theme & canvas button in the bottom-right corner. See Themes. Nor are the timer, vote and poll: they have their own buttons in the bottom-right corner, in Workshop mode. See Session Tools.
On a Participant or view-only link
Right-click an element (a long press on a touch screen) and you get a short menu with only what your link lets you do: Add Comment (or View Comments) and Edit Text on a Participant link, Show Comments on a view-only link where the element already has comments, and Open Link, View Note and Copy Text wherever the element has them. There is no tab menu on these links.
Context menus close as soon as you pick an action or click elsewhere, and Escape closes them too.
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