mhutchie#557 Improved context menu click event handling.

Author: mhutchie

web/contextMenu.ts

@@ -89,11 +89,17 @@ class ContextMenu {
 		this.onClose = onClose;
 
 		addListenerToClass('contextMenuItem', 'click', (e) => {
+			// The user clicked on a context menu item => call the corresponding handler
 			e.stopPropagation();
 			this.close();
 			handlers[parseInt((<HTMLElement>(<Element>e.target).closest('.contextMenuItem')!).dataset.index!)]();
 		});
 
+		menu.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
+			// The user clicked on the context menu (but not a specific item) => keep the context menu open to allow the user to reattempt clicking on a specific item
+			e.stopPropagation();
+		});
+
 		this.target = target;
 		if (this.target !== null && this.target.type !== TargetType.Repo) {
 			alterClass(this.target.elem, CLASS_CONTEXT_MENU_ACTIVE, true);