# Right-click a table component and select the row first

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/right-click-a-table-component-and-select-the-row-first/12322>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [November 2, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/right-click-a-table-component-and-select-the-row-first/12322 "2016-11-02T15:52:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/right-click-a-table-component-and-select-the-row-first/12322/9 "2024-12-03T17:54:35Z")

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Please don't mix Perspective and Vision questions. It makes a confused mess of the thread. (Perspective was released in 2019, about three years after this thread started.) A Perspective question earlier today has already been deleted by the author and moved to a new thread.

> [@Selecting a Perspective table row with right-click](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/selecting-a-perspective-table-row-with-right-click/99372):
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> Good day folks. This post is sort of the spiritual successor to [this Vision post](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/right-click-a-table-component-and-select-the-row-first/12322/3). my requirement is: given a contextMenu that is opened with rightclick (using the built in meta.contextMenu on a table component) open a popup that receives data from the right-clicked row. I found that because right-click doesn't select a row in the way left-click does, I can't rely on self.props.selection.selectedRow since it doesn't update when right-clicked. would think that in order to leverage it I'd need to…

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