Adding custom contextMenu items for tab

[Sridhar]

Hi,

From the Context Menu API(http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/
contextMenus.html), contextMenu items can be added to 'page',
'selection', 'link', 'editable', 'image', 'video', 'audio' or 'all'. I
have a requirement in which I would like a menuItem(s) to be added in
the contextMenu that shows up on right click of the tab(in the tab
bar).

Is it currently possible?

Regards,
Sridhar

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Unfortunately this is not possible.  Context menus are limited to web page DOM only.

~Arne

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[devasia]

Is it possible to add a context menu item to a specific dom element?
For example I need to add a context menu item to an anchor tag with
id="my-id".
Is that possible?

On Feb 15, 3:39 am, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <kur...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Unfortunately this is not possible.  Context menus are limited to web page
> DOM only.
>
> ~Arne
>
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>
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> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Sridhar <sridhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > From the Context Menu API(http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/
> > contextMenus.html), contextMenu items can be added to 'page',
> > 'selection', 'link', 'editable', 'image', 'video', 'audio' or 'all'. I
> > have a requirement in which I would like a menuItem(s) to be added in
> > the contextMenu that shows up on right click of the tab(in the tab
> > bar).
>
> > Is it currently possible?
>
> > Regards,
> > Sridhar
>
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[Michael Gundlach]

No.  In fact, if you need to get info about the domelement clicked, other than the data sent with the contextmenu event, the only way I know is by jumping through hoops:

1. Set up a right click handler on the page that records the event target in a global variable, if it's an element that you wanted users to be able to right click.

2. Have the context menu installed in "all" contexts.

3. When the user clicks the context menu item, the background page sends a request to the page.

4. The page's onRequest handler responds by sending relevant data from the global variable, e.g. the id of the item clicked.

AdBlock has to do steps 1 through 3 so that users can right click on an element and choose "Block this ad", and then the page knows which element was clicked.

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