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| Issue: | Right-Click Link Context Menu Not Available |
| Browser: | All |
| Platform: | All |
| Description: | The standard
right-click context menu that browsers will display when over a link (that
displays operation choices such as "Copy Link Location," "Save Target As," etc.)
is not available for HierMenus menu items. |
| Cause: | For flexibility in
menu item handling, HierMenus menu items are not actually created in the Web
page as true hyperlinks (they do not use the HTML anchor elements). Thus, the
standard browser context menu will not be applied to them. |
| Workaround: | A workaround
possible in later version browsers is to force the descriptions that are
displayed in HierMenus items to be actual links, by enclosing them in appropriate
<a>...</a> tags. For more information on the work around and
a usage example, see this page:
Menu Links Example
Note that fringe benefits of this work around are that Internet Explorer will
provide referrer addresses to server logs when they are defined in this way
(see Known Issue #4), and the tab key will rotate
through the menu links that are visible on the page. |
| Posted: | September 12, 2006 |
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