Simulate an actual right click, not just mousedown or mouseup

Question

I am using an (admittedly very old) jQuery plugin called contextmenu to replace the right click context menu on certain elements. The source for this plugin can be found here .

You attach the context menu to an element like so:

$(".class").contextMenu('menu_template', {
    menuStyle: {

        border: '0px',

    },
    itemStyle: {

    },
    itemHoverStyle: {

    },
    onShowMenu: function(e, menu) {     

    },
    other stuff ....
})

Additionally, I would like to manually trigger this menu, and thought the easiest way would be to simulate a right click on the element.

I have tried:

$('.class').triggerHandler('contextmenu');

and

$('.class').trigger({
    type:'mousedown',
    button:2
}).trigger({
    type:'mouseup',
    button:2
});

and

$('.class').trigger({
    type:'mousedown',
    which:3
}).trigger({
    type:'mouseup',
    which:3
});

and just

$('.class').trigger({
    type:'mousedown',
    which:3
})

None of these have worked.

I am sure this has something to do with the way this plugin attaches it self to the element and overrides the context menu, but I am no JavaScript expert so am not sure what is going on.

How can I manually trigger this menu to appear?

Answer 1

Have you tried something like this?

$(document).mousedown(function(e) {
    if (e.button == 2) {
        $("span.demo1").trigger("contextmenu");
    }
    return true;
});

SNIPPET

 $(document).ready(function() { $(document).bind("contextmenu", function(e) { e.preventDefault(); }); $('span.demo1').contextMenu('myMenu1', { bindings: { 'open': function(t) { alert('Trigger was ' + t.id + '\\nAction was Open'); }, 'email': function(t) { alert('Trigger was ' + t.id + '\\nAction was Email'); }, 'save': function(t) { alert('Trigger was ' + t.id + '\\nAction was Save'); }, 'delete': function(t) { alert('Trigger was ' + t.id + '\\nAction was Delete'); } } }); }); $(document).mousedown(function(e) { if (e.button == 2) { var element = document.getElementById("quickDemo"), ev; if (document.createEvent) { ev = new MouseEvent("contextmenu", { screenX: 0, screenY: 0, clientX: element.offsetLeft, clientY: element.offsetTop + element.offsetHeight, ctrlKey: false, shiftKey: false, altKey: false, metaKey: false, button: 2 }); element.dispatchEvent(ev); } else { ev = document.createEventObject(); element.fireEvent('contextmenu', ev); } } return true; }); 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="http://www.trendskitchens.co.nz/jquery/contextmenu/jquery.contextmenu.r2.js"></script> <div class="contextMenu" id="myMenu1" style="display: none;"> <ul> <li id="open"> <img src="folder.png">Open</li> <li id="email"> <img src="email.png">Email</li> <li id="save"> <img src="disk.png">Save</li> <li id="delete"> <img src="cross.png">Delete</li> </ul> </div> <span class="demo1" id="quickDemo" style="float:right;border: 1px solid #888;"> <b>DEMO</b> right-click me!! </span>