MouseEventArgs.Button Property

Definition

Gets which mouse button was pressed.

public System.Windows.Forms.MouseButtons Button { get; }

Property Value

One of the MouseButtons values.

Examples

The following code example handles the MouseDown event on a TextBox control so that clicking the right mouse button selects all the text in the control. This example requires that you have a form that contains a TextBox control named textBox1.

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    // This line suppresses the default context menu for the TextBox control. 
    textBox1.ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
    textBox1.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(textBox1_MouseDown);
}

void textBox1_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Right)
    {
        textBox1.Select(0, textBox1.Text.Length);
    }
}

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
Windows Desktop 3.0, 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

See also