How To: Create Simple Jquery Right Click Cross browser Vertical Menu

Creating right click with the help of jquery is real easy and can be implemented very quickly. While trying for my one of the project , I made one and sharing it today.

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Why not to check DEMO before moving on.

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Step 1: Creating HTML

Simply copy and paste the html next to the div to be right clicked. In this example we have ( id=”rightclickarea” )

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Step 2: Add Style to stylesheet

Now add following css to your stylesheet:

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 .vmenu{border:1px solid #aaa;position:absolute;background:#fff;      display:none;font-size:0.75em;} .vmenu .first_li span{width:100px;display:block;padding:5px 10px;cursor:pointer} .vmenu .inner_li{display:none;margin-left:120px;position:absolute;border:1px solid #aaa; border-left:1px solid #ccc;margin-top:-28px;background:#fff;} .vmenu .sep_li{border-top: 1px ridge #aaa;margin:5px 0} .vmenu .fill_title{font-size:11px;font-weight:bold;/height:15px;/overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;}

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Step 3: Add Jquery script

And finally , add following lines just inside head tag of your HTML:

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 $(document).ready(function(){
  $('#rightclickarea').bind('contextmenu',function(e){ var $cmenu = $(this).next(); $('').css({left : '0px', top : '0px',position: 'absolute', width: '100%', height: '100%', zIndex: '100' }).click(function() { $(this).remove(); $cmenu.hide(); }).bind('contextmenu' , function(){return false;}).appendTo(document.body); $(this).next().css({ left: e.pageX, top: e.pageY, zIndex: '101' }).show();
  return false; });
  $('.vmenu .first_li').live('click',function() { if( $(this).children().size() == 1 ) { alert($(this).children().text()); $('.vmenu').hide(); $('.overlay').hide(); } });
  $('.vmenu .inner_li span').live('click',function() { alert($(this).text()); $('.vmenu').hide(); $('.overlay').hide(); });
 
  $(".first_li , .sec_li, .inner_li span").hover(function () { $(this).css({backgroundColor : '#E0EDFE' , cursor : 'pointer'}); if ( $(this).children().size() >0 ) $(this).find('.inner_li').show(); $(this).css({cursor : 'default'}); }, function () { $(this).css('background-color' , '#fff' ); $(this).find('.inner_li').hide(); });
 
  }); 

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Here is DEMO

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That’s all!
Cheers!!

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