Jquery/JS prevent right click menu in browsers

Question

I have my div with a right click popup menu:

// Attatch right click event to folder for extra options
$(\'#fBox\' + folderID).mousedown(function(event) {
            


        

Answer 1

// Attatch right click event to folder for extra options
$('#fBox' + folderID).mousedown(function(event) {
    if (event.which == 3) {
        event.preventDefault();
        // Set ID
        currRClickFolder = folderID;

        // Calculate position to show popup menu
        var height = $('#folderRClickMenu').height();
        var width = $('#folderRClickMenu').width();
        leftVal = event.pageX - (width / 2) + "px";
        topVal = event.pageY - (height) + "px";
        $('#folderRClickMenu').css({ left: leftVal, top: topVal }).show();

    }
});

Answer 2

Try...

$('[id^="fBox"]').mousedown(function(event) {
    if (event.which == 3) {
        event.preventDefault();
        // Set ID
        currRClickFolder = $(this).attr('id').replace('fBox','');

        // Calculate position to show popup menu
        var height = $('#folderRClickMenu').height();
        var width = $('#folderRClickMenu').width();
        leftVal = event.pageX - (width / 2) + "px";
        topVal = event.pageY - (height) + "px";
        $('#folderRClickMenu').css({ left: leftVal, top: topVal }).show();

    }
});

if you have any dynamic creation of these boxes then...

$('[id^="fBox"]').live('mousedown',function(event) {
    ...
});

Answer 3

Here's a way I used recently (using a little jQuery too,) when I was running into a problem with it. Since the mousedown event occurs before the contextmenu, this trick seems to catch it, which is attaching a body level oncontextmenu handler to return false temporarily in the mousedown event, perform your desired action, then as an important part, remember to remove the handler afterward.

This is just part of my code extracted out, as an example...

$(div)
    .mousedown(function (e) {
        if (!leftButtonPressed(e)) {
            disableContextMenu(true);
            showOptions({ x: e.clientX, y: e.clientY }, div); // do my own thing here
        }
    });

When my showoptions() rtn finishes, a callback function is run and it calls the disable-rtn again, but with 'false':

disableContextMenu(false);

Here's my disableContextMenu() rtn:

function disableContextMenu(boolDisable, fn) {
    if (boolDisable) {
        $(document).contextmenu(function (e) {
            if (fn !== undefined) {
                return fn(e);
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        });
    } else {
        $(document).prop("oncontextmenu", null).off("contextmenu");
    }
}

Answer 4

For me

$('body').on('contextmenu',function(){return false;});

jQuery does the job :)

Answer 5

There’s many Javascript snippets available to disable right-click contextual menu, but JQuery makes things a lot easier:

    $(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
        return false;
    });
}); 

Answer 6

I agree with @aruseni, blocking oncontextmenu at the body level you'll avoid the standard context menu on the right click for every element in the page.

But what if you want to have a finer control?

I had a similar issue and I thought I've found a good solution: why not attaching directly your context menu code to the contextmenu event of the specific element(s) you want to deal with? Something like this:

// Attatch right click event to folder for extra options
$('#fBox' + folderID).on("contextmenu", function(event) {
  // <-- here you handle your custom context menu
  // Set ID
  currRClickFolder = folderID;

  // Calculate position to show popup menu
  var height = $('#folderRClickMenu').height();
  var width = $('#folderRClickMenu').width();
  leftVal = event.pageX - (width / 2) + "px";
  topVal = event.pageY - (height) + "px";
  $('#folderRClickMenu').css({ left: leftVal, top: topVal }).show();

  event.stopImmediatePropagation();
  return false; // <-- here you avoid the default context menu
});

Thus you avoid handling two different events just to capture the context menu and customize it :)

Of course this assumes you don't mind having the standard context menu displayed when someone clicks the elements you didn't select. You might as well show different context menus depending on where users right-click..

HTH