how to write your own right click menu and disable the default using jquery/javascript

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1450100

  •  11-09-2019
  •  | 
  •  

Question

I successfully disabled the right click event on the page that I am working on using jquery. I want to create a customize right click menu. How can I do this? Does this need relevant css setting to get it working (i.e. "position")?

Was it helpful?

Solution

There are various jQuery context menu plugins out there, ready to use:

OTHER TIPS

This example works, though it is cheesy. What you could do in your contextmenu handler is show a DIV at a specific location on the screen with items of your choosing. As far as I know, there is no way to customize the items within the context menu that appears when you right-click on elements.

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Context menu test</title>  
    <style type="text/css">
      .element {
        background-color: blue;
        height: 300px;
        width: 300px;
      }

      .popup {
        background-color: red;
        border: 1px solid black;
        width: 100px;
        height: 100px;
        position: absolute;
       }
    </style>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      $(function() {
          $(".element").contextmenu
          (
            function(e) {
              $("div.popup").remove();
              $("<div class='popup'>Hi</div>").appendTo("body")
                .css("left", e.pageX)
                .css("top", e.pageY)
                .show();
              e.preventDefault();  // return false; also works
            }
          );
        }
      );

      $.fn.contextmenu = function(func) {
        return this.bind("contextmenu", func);
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="element"></div>
  </body>
</html>

There is this plugin too: Audero Context Menu. It is free and very simple to use.

Licensed under: CC-BY-SA with attribution
Not affiliated with StackOverflow
scroll top