context menu on left mouse click?

Question

the description of jsTree contextmenu says "The contextmenu plugin enables a contextual menu to be shown, when the user right-clicks a node (or when triggered programatically by the developer)."

could somebody tell me how

• I can trigger the menu on left mouse click
• leave the right mouse as it is

Answer 1

Since JSTree 3

$('#jstree_list').jstree({
   ...
}).on('select_node.jstree', function (e, data) {
    setTimeout(function() {
        data.instance.show_contextmenu(data.node)
    }, 100);
});

The delay seems necessary, I don't know exactly why

Answer 2

You can trigger context menu on elem (eg. a <li>) by $(elem).trigger('contextmenu.jstree')