A Simple Good Looking Context Menu, for jQuery

Yes, there are loads of context menu plugins already. But they require a fair amount of work to make them look good.

This one is easy to use, small, and looks good.

Demo

http://joewalnes.github.io/jquery-simple-context-menu/example.html

Features

Tiny library. Only dependency is jQuery.
Simple API.
Looks good out of the box, with no additional tweaking.
Designed to look and behave like a standard Windows context menu.
There’s so little code, it should be easy to add your own custom features.

The menu looks like this:

Installation

Include the files jquery.contextmenu.css and jquery.contextmenu.js in your page <head>. You also need jQuery. It is recommended that you use the HTML 5 DOCTYPE to ensure rendering consistency.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <script src="jquery-1.6.2.min.js"></script>
    <script src="jquery.contextmenu.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="jquery.contextmenu.css">
    ... rest of your stuff ...

You can get the files from here:

Usage

The plugin introduces a contextPopup() method to the jQuery object.

Assuming you have an element that you’d like to bind a context menu to:

<div id="mythingy">hello</div>

You can wire up a context menu like this:

$('#mythingy').contextPopup({
  title: 'My Popup Menu',
  items: [
    { label:'Some Item',
      icon:'icons/shopping-basket.png',
      action:function() { alert('clicked 1') } },
    { label:'Another Thing',
      icon:'icons/receipt-text.png',
      action:function() { alert('clicked 2') } },
    // null can be used to add a separator to the menu items
    null,
    { label:'Blah Blah',
      icon:'icons/book-open-list.png',
      action:function() { alert('clicked 3') } }
  ]});

Icons

The icons should be 16×16 pixels. I recommend the Fugue icon set (shadowless).

Go get it

It’s over on GitHub:

https://github.com/joewalnes/jquery-simple-context-menu