Question

I’m using a context-menu jQuery plugin and I need to detect what browsers support this. How can this be done?

I heard some versions of Opera and Safari don’t support this right-click overriding business.

Answer 1

You can create and fire a contextmenu event manually. If you set the proper handler, you can detect if the handler is called or not.

Here is an example (using jQuery for event creation and observation):

function testContextMenuEvent() {
  var supported = false;
  function handler(e) {
    supported = true;
    e.stopPropagation();
  }
  $(document).bind('contextmenu', handler);
  var evt = jQuery.Event("contextmenu");
  $(document).trigger(evt);
  $(document).unbind('contextmenu', handler);
  return supported;
}

Here is a test page : http://jsfiddle.net/Hk4xA/6/

edit2: the DOM has striken again. I forgot that createEvent totally doesn’t work on IE. So instead I used jQuery for the event creation too.