swisnl/jQuery-contextMenu

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2244 stars · 721 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A jQuery plugin and HTML5 polyfill for managing context menus (right-click menus) in web applications. It is optimized for applications with hundreds of trigger elements, keeping initialization speed and memory usage low by defining a single menu that can be shared across many objects.

Use cases

• add a custom right-click menu to elements on a webpage
• show a context menu on hundreds of dynamically created elements
• replace the native browser context menu with a styled HTML5 one
• build context menus with form inputs inside them
• create context menus dynamically per triggering element
• polyfill HTML5 contextmenu behavior in older browsers

When to choose

• your project already uses jQuery and needs context menus
• you need one menu definition shared across many trigger elements efficiently
• you want in-menu forms or dynamic per-element menus
• you need an HTML5 context menu polyfill

When to avoid

• you are building a modern app without jQuery and prefer a framework-native solution
• you need menus that are frequently mutated after registration
• you need a mobile-first touch menu rather than right-click menus

Facets

plugin · maturity maintenance

ui-components developer-tools web-development frontend browser cross-platform jquery-plugin context-menu html5-polyfill right-click-menu

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