I know this question is very old, but just came up with the same problem and solved it myself, so I’m answering in case anyone finds this through google as I did. I based my solution on @Andrew’s one, but basically modified everything afterwards.
EDIT: seeing how popular this has been lately, I decided to update also the styles to make it look more like 2014 and less like windows 95. I fixed the bugs @Quantico and @Trengot spotted so now it’s a more solid answer.
EDIT 2: I set it up with StackSnippets as they’re a really cool new feature. I leave the good jsfiddle here for reference thought (click on the 4th panel to see them work).
New Stack Snippet:
// JAVASCRIPT (jQuery)
// Trigger action when the contexmenu is about to be shown
$(document).bind("contextmenu", function (event) {
// Avoid the real one
event.preventDefault();
// Show contextmenu
$(".custom-menu").finish().toggle(100).
// In the right position (the mouse)
css({
top: event.pageY + "px",
left: event.pageX + "px"
});
});
// If the document is clicked somewhere
$(document).bind("mousedown", function (e) {
// If the clicked element is not the menu
if (!$(e.target).parents(".custom-menu").length > 0) {
// Hide it
$(".custom-menu").hide(100);
}
});
// If the menu element is clicked
$(".custom-menu li").click(function(){
// This is the triggered action name
switch($(this).attr("data-action")) {
// A case for each action. Your actions here
case "first": alert("first"); break;
case "second": alert("second"); break;
case "third": alert("third"); break;
}
// Hide it AFTER the action was triggered
$(".custom-menu").hide(100);
});/* CSS3 */
/* The whole thing */
.custom-menu {
display: none;
z-index: 1000;
position: absolute;
overflow: hidden;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
white-space: nowrap;
font-family: sans-serif;
background: #FFF;
color: #333;
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 0;
}
/* Each of the items in the list */
.custom-menu li {
padding: 8px 12px;
cursor: pointer;
list-style-type: none;
transition: all .3s ease;
user-select: none;
}
.custom-menu li:hover {
background-color: #DEF;
}<!-- HTML -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.js"></script>
<ul class="custom-menu">
<li data-action="first">First thing</li>
<li data-action="second">Second thing</li>
<li data-action="third">Third thing</li>
</ul>
<!-- Not needed, only for making it clickable on StackOverflow -->
Right click meNote: you might see some small bugs (dropdown far from the cursor, etc), please make sure that it works in the jsfiddle, as that’s more similar to your webpage than StackSnippets might be.