Question

I am trying to late-bind context menus to elements, using the ContextMenu plugin. So on the first right-click on those elements, I would like to :

1. intercept the right-click through a live event on a certain “uncontextmenued” class,
2. determine if the data('events').contextmenu exists,
3. if not, attach the context-menu (and change the class to avoid re-throwing this live process),
4. re-throw the right-click event to show the right-click.

I’m having trouble with the last item. jQuery allows to .click() or to .trigger('click'), which simulate a left-click, but there seems not to be a way to fire a right-click event through trigger.

Or is there?

Answer 1

You can trigger it by

$('#element').trigger({
    type: 'mousedown',
    which: 3
});

http://api.jquery.com/trigger/#example-5