A jQuery plugin that provides a context menu (based on the standard jQueryUI menu widget).

• Themable using jQuery ThemeRoller.
• Supports delegation (i.e. can be bound to elements that don't exist at the time the context menu is initialized).
• Exposes events from jQueryUI menu: blur, create, focus, select.

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Say we have some HTML elements that we want to attach a popup menu to:

<div id="container">
    <div class="hasmenu">AAA</div>
    <div class="hasmenu">BBB</div>
    <div class="hasmenu">CCC</div>
</div>

now we can enable a contextmenu like so:

$("#container").contextmenu({
    delegate: ".hasmenu",
    menu: "#options",
    select: function(event, ui) {
        var menuId = ui.item.find(">a").attr("href"),
            target = event.relatedTarget;
        alert("select " + menuId + " on " + $(target).text());
    }
});

To apply the selector globally, pass document as context:

$(document).contextmenu({
    delegate: ".hasmenu",
    [...]
});

Of course we also have to provide some HTML markup that defines the context menu structure (see jQueryUI menu for details):

<ul id="options" class="ui-helper-hidden">
    <li><a href="#action1">Action 1</a>
    <li><a href="#action2">Action 2</a>
    <li class="ui-state-disabled"><a href="#action3">Action 3</a>
    <li>----
    <li><a>Extra</a>
        <ul>
            <li><a href="#action4">sub4</a>
            <li><a href="#action5">sub5</a>
        </ul>
</ul>

delegate

Type: String
A selector to filter the elements that trigger the context menu.

ignoreParentSelect

Type: Boolean, default: true
If true, a click on a menu item that contains a sub-menu, will not trigger the select event.

menu

Type: String | jQuery | function
jQuery object or selector (or function returning such) of HTML markup that defines the context menu structure (see [jQueryUI menu] for details).

close()

Close context menu if open.
Call like $(...).contextmenu("close");.

open(target)

Open context menu on a specific target (target must match the options.delegate filter).
Call like $(...).contextmenu("open", target);.

jquery-contextmenu exposes events from jQueryUI menu: blur, create, focus, select. However, since the event.target parameter contains the menu item, we additionally pass the element that was right-clicked in event.relatedTarget.

Events may be handled by defining a handler option:

$("#container").contextmenu({
    [...]
    select: function(event, ui) {
        var menuId = ui.item.find(">a").attr("href"),
            target = event.relatedTarget;
        alert("select " + menuId + " on " + $(target).text());
    }
});

Alternatively a handler may be bound, so this is equivalent:

$("#container").bind("contextmenuselect", function(event, ui) {
    var menuId = ui.item.find(">a").attr("href"),
        target = event.relatedTarget;
    alert("select " + menuId + " on " + $(target).text());
}

beforeOpen(event)

Triggered just before the popup menu is opened.
Return false to prevent opening.

blur(event, ui)

Triggered when the menu loses focus.

close(event)

Triggered when the menu is closed.

create(event, ui)

Triggered when the menu is created.

focus(event, ui)

Triggered when a menu gains focus or when any menu item is activated.

init(event)

Triggered when the contextmenu widget is initialized.

open(event)

Triggered when the menu is opened.

select(event, ui)

Triggered when a menu item is selected.
Return false to prevent closing the menu.