Question

When we click with right mouse button on a any site link, there’s a dropdown menu. One of the options here is “Open in new window”. For some reasons, I need to disable this possibility for all site links. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE

The reason for doing this

The site menu has 2 types of menu items: ordinary links to pages and fake links, that cause popup window with certain information. I have a jquery function, that shows this popup and returns false for the link. And when a user “Open in new window” some of fake links, page reloads, but popup does not appear. And the user is looking at the empty page. That’s not good I think 🙂

Answer 1

UPDATE

It’s possible to disable context menu on any element we want:

$('selector').contextmenu( function() {
    return false;
});

To disable context menu on the page completely, we can use the following:

$('*').contextmenu( function() {
    return false;
});

OLD ANSWER

OK, guys, if we can’t change browsers specific features, then we have to think of some other way. As for me, the most suitable idea has been suggested by Quentin. So I wrote a little jquery script to replace all links, that I need to be fake, with span elements.

// transform links with .fake class only
$('.nav >li > a.fake').each(function () {

    // save all necessary link information
    var href = $(this).attr('href');
    var text = $(this).html();

    // add fake span
    $(this).after('<span>'+text+'</span>');

    // save new span into a variable and after this we can remove the link
    var mySpan = $(this).siblings('span');
    $(this).remove();

    // emulate link default behaviour
    mySpan.click(function () {
        window.location.href = href;
    });

});