# meta.contextMenu doesn't work on touch screen devices

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/meta-contextmenu-doesnt-work-on-touch-screen-devices/104769>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/meta-contextmenu-doesnt-work-on-touch-screen-devices/104769 "2025-04-07T07:39:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![nader.chinichian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nader.chinichian/32/9261_2.png) [@nader.chinichian](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nader.chinichian)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/meta-contextmenu-doesnt-work-on-touch-screen-devices/104769/1 "2025-04-07T07:39:03Z")

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Hi

I try to activate meta.contextMenu on touch screen devices but it seems this feature doesn't trigger by touch events.  
Is there any workaround for this?

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**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/meta-contextmenu-doesnt-work-on-touch-screen-devices/104769/2 "2025-04-07T10:05:59Z")

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There's a requestContextMenu script function to open it

> **[Perspective Component Methods | Ignition User Manual](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/ignition-modules/perspective/scripting-in-perspective/perspective-component-methods#requesting-or-removing-context-menus)**
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> A component method is a function that is defined on a component object. For example, this is how we would call a component method defined on the component object self: