# swisnl/jQuery-contextMenu

jQuery contextMenu plugin & polyfill

Repository: https://github.com/swisnl/jQuery-contextMenu
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/jquery-contextmenu
Homepage: https://swisnl.github.io/jQuery-contextMenu/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: contextmenu, html, jquery-contextmenu, jquery, jquery-plugin, html5, polyfill, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-07-30T08:30:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 55, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5537, "days_push": 34, "days_rel": 302, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2244, forks 721 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:29.968739+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: jquery-plugin, context-menu, html5-polyfill, right-click-menu

## Member repositories
- swisnl/jQuery-contextMenu (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.968739+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:44:02.792836+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/swisnl/jQuery-contextMenu (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.968739+00:00, sha 296f0222ba38)
  - homepage: https://swisnl.github.io/jQuery-contextMenu/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:24:28.717045+00:00, sha 10381cd0fc18)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/jquery-contextmenu (fetched 2026-08-29T10:24:28.726386+00:00, sha 191e63386dd4)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.