Question

I didn’t notice it in Modernizr’s documentation but I imagine you create a menu element then check if it exists? My only concern is that the browser may support that but not type context. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

I have come up with a rather shoddy solution that returns true for Firefox as far as I can tell then returns false for Chrome, IE and Opera. Check it out:

// Detect context menu support.

function contextMenuSupported() {

    var oMenu = document.createElement("menu");

    // Kind of backwards but seems to work.

    if (oMenu.type == "list")
        return true;

    return false;

}

Let me know if that just horrifies you. It seems when a menu element is created with a browser that supports it, certain attributes are intrinsically defined.