This widget was created to work in IE5 and above. We are currently working out a bug in IE5 and it should be operational soon. Currently, IE5.5+ seems to support it perfectly. Stay tuned for updates.
In a constant fight to make more widgets available to dhtml application developers, I realized a key component missing from the html widget set was a customizable context menu. There are other context menu scripts available, but this one has some additional cool features. Among other things, it can be configured to appear exactly as a native windows context menu, and can be appear on top of select boxes and iframes. Also, creation of the context menu can be controlled by assigning a simple event handler and a particular function for any type of element you want it attached to.
If you are using IE5.5+, right-click anywhere on the page to show the menu.
I wanted the context menu to be able to appear above other Iframes and select boxes, so I decided
against a div element to contain the menu and used an Iframe instead. The rest of the design
was pretty much straight-forward; I just included some functions for forcing the menu to disapear
when the document containing it lost focus, and ensured that its appearance was completely customizable
with the use of CSS classes. The largest portion of the code is the generation of the div elements
that contain each option. The options may contain any type of html, but (obviously) certain html
looks pretty funny.
An important desicion was how I expected users of the object to set up particular context menus for
different elements on the page. To make it as versatile as possible, I decided to have the user
attach a function to the oncontextmenu event handler of each element, which will intialize all of
the ContextItem objects and call ContextMenu.display() with an array of ContextItem and ContextSeperator
objects as an argument.