Dynamic Drive DHTML Scripts- Context menu Script

Context menu Script

Updated: August 22nd, 01' Author: Dynamic Drive

Description: With IE 5 and now NS6.1+, you can add a context menu to your webpage. What's a context menu? Well, it's a custom menu that pops up in place of the default context menu when you right click your mouse. This custom menu can do virtually anything you want it to do, although in this script, it's designed to go to a set of URLs. Also note that window targeting is possible with each link, so the links can be specified to open either in current window, or another. See footnote for more info on this.

Demo: Right click anywhere inside this document if you're using IE 5 or NS6.1+. Try clicking on "What's New", and notice how the link loads in a new window.

Dynamicdrive.com

What's New?

What's Hot?

Message Forum

FAQs

Submit

Email Us

Directions

Step 1: Insert the below into the <head> section of your page:

Step 2: Finally, insert the below anywhere inside the <body> section of your page:

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<div id="ie5menu" class="skin0" onMouseover="highlightie5(event)" onMouseout="lowlightie5(event)" onClick="jumptoie5(event)" display:none> <div class="menuitems" url="http://dynamicdrive.com">Dynamicdrive.com</div> <div class="menuitems" url="http://dynamicdrive.com/new.htm" target="newwin">What's New?</div> <div class="menuitems" url="http://dynamicdrive.com/hot.htm">What's Hot?</div> <div class="menuitems" url="http://wsabstract.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi">Message Forum</div> <div class="menuitems" url="http://dynamicdrive.com/faqs.htm">FAQs</div> <div class="menuitems" url="http://dynamicdrive.com/submitscript.htm">Submit</div> <hr> <div class="menuitems" url="mailto:dynamicdrive@yahoo.com">Email Us</div> </div> <script language="JavaScript1.2"> //set this variable to 1 if you wish the URLs of the highlighted menu to be displayed in the status bar var display_url=0 var ie5=document.all&&document.getElementById var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all if (ie5||ns6) var menuobj=document.getElementById("ie5menu") function showmenuie5(e){ //Find out how close the mouse is to the corner of the window var rightedge=ie5? document.body.clientWidth-event.clientX : window.innerWidth-e.clientX var bottomedge=ie5? document.body.clientHeight-event.clientY : window.innerHeight-e.clientY //if the horizontal distance isn't enough to accomodate the width of the context menu if (rightedge<menuobj.offsetWidth) //move the horizontal position of the menu to the left by it's width menuobj.style.left=ie5? document.body.scrollLeft+event.clientX-menuobj.offsetWidth : window.pageXOffset+e.clientX-menuobj.offsetWidth else //position the horizontal position of the menu where the mouse was clicked menuobj.style.left=ie5? document.body.scrollLeft+event.clientX : window.pageXOffset+e.clientX //same concept with the vertical position if (bottomedge<menuobj.offsetHeight) menuobj.style.top=ie5? document.body.scrollTop+event.clientY-menuobj.offsetHeight : window.pageYOffset+e.clientY-menuobj.offsetHeight else menuobj.style.top=ie5? document.body.scrollTop+event.clientY : window.pageYOffset+e.clientY menuobj.style.visibility="visible" return false } function hidemenuie5(e){ menuobj.style.visibility="hidden" } function highlightie5(e){ var firingobj=ie5? event.srcElement : e.target if (firingobj.className=="menuitems"||ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems"){ if (ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems") firingobj=firingobj.parentNode //up one node firingobj.style.backgroundColor="highlight" firingobj.style.color="white" if (display_url==1) window.status=event.srcElement.url } } function lowlightie5(e){ var firingobj=ie5? event.srcElement : e.target if (firingobj.className=="menuitems"||ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems"){ if (ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems") firingobj=firingobj.parentNode //up one node firingobj.style.backgroundColor="" firingobj.style.color="black" window.status='' } } function jumptoie5(e){ var firingobj=ie5? event.srcElement : e.target if (firingobj.className=="menuitems"||ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems"){ if (ns6&&firingobj.parentNode.className=="menuitems") firingobj=firingobj.parentNode if (firingobj.getAttribute("target")) window.open(firingobj.getAttribute("url"),firingobj.getAttribute("target")) else window.location=firingobj.getAttribute("url") } } if (ie5||ns6){ menuobj.style.display='' document.oncontextmenu=showmenuie5 document.onclick=hidemenuie5 } </script>

This script is extremely easy to customize. To edit the contents of the menu, simply change the text and urls of the code in Part 2. If you wish to change the physical width of the menu, change the width value inside the <style> tag of Part 1.

Each <div> supports a target attribute, which you define if you wish the particular menu link to launch in a different or new window. For example:

<div class="menuitems" url="index.htm">Dynamicdrive.com</div>
<div class="menuitems" url="new.htm" target="newwin">What's New?</div>
<div class="menuitems" url="hot.htm">What's Hot?</div>

This will cause the second link to be loaded in window "newwin".