opera.contexts.menu.item() and MenuItem.item()

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Description

This method gets a given MenuItem from the browser's context menu or another menu item.

Parameters:

• index: The indexth element in a MenuItem collection to be returned.

Syntax:

MenuItem item (long index)

Example:

<!--
  The configuration file ('config.xml').
-->
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<widget xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets">
    ...
    <feature name="opera:contextmenus"/>
    ...
</widget>

//
// The background process (e.g. index.html)
//

if (opera.contexts.menu) {
  var menu = opera.contexts.menu;

  // Create a menu item properties object
  var itemProps = {
    title: 'Context Menu Example'
  }

  // Create a menu item with the specified properties
  var item = menu.createItem(itemProps);
  // Add the menu item to the context menu
  menu.addItem(item);

  item.onclick = function(event) {
    // Show the title of the item with index 0
    console.log(menu.item(0).title);
  };
}

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