Webkit: contextmenu / click handling bug workaround?

Question

I'm trying to work with the contextmenu & click handlers on an anchor element in a cross-browser way, and it's proving really difficult.

Here's the problem: if preventDefault() is called on a contextmenu event from a contextmenu event handler, browsers behave differently. All browsers correctly do not display their browser's default context menu. In Chrome & Safari, however, the browser then follows a click event for the element (and only if the contextmenu event is canceled).

When I cancel a contextmenu event from a contextmenu handler, I do NOT want a successive click event fired on the same element. Is there a clean way to resolve this? Neither returning false on the contextmenu handler nor the calling stopPropagation function alleviate the issue!

Here is a demo with a strange glitch (use Webkit inspector or Firebug to see the trace)

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Here's one answer: use jQuery rather than POJ to cleanup width/height stuff:

    function Cancel_Next_Click()
    {
        // Compatibility - Chrome & Safari bug where context click event is followed by an undesired click event

        var Cancel_Next_Click_Element = document.createElement("div");
        Cancel_Next_Click_Element.style.position = "fixed";
        Cancel_Next_Click_Element.style.left = "0px";
        Cancel_Next_Click_Element.style.top = "0px";
        Cancel_Next_Click_Element.style.width = window.innerWidth;
        Cancel_Next_Click_Element.style.height =window.innerHeight;
        document.body.appendChild(Cancel_Next_Click_Element);

        var Cancel_Next_Click_Element_Listener = function() {
                document.body.removeChild(Cancel_Next_Click_Element);
                document.removeEventListener('mouseup', Cancel_Next_Click_Element_Listener, false);
            }

        document.addEventListener('mouseup', Cancel_Next_Click_Element_Listener, false);
    }

Answer 1

by using some other element like a span for instance you wouldn't have to worry about the default action, since there wouldn't be a click even by default. I found these two jquery plugins that might do the trick for you:

http://abeautifulsite.net/blog/2008/09/jquery-context-menu-plugin/

http://beckelman.net/post/2008/11/04/Right-or-Left-Click-Context-Menu-Using-jQuery-Demo.aspx