JavaScript simulate right click through code

Question

I am writing some UI tests using Selenium and i have a JavaScript Tree control, using the Dojo toolkit.

I have implemented a context menu for each node of the tree using the examples that Dojo provide, but I need the Selenium test to "invoke" the right click on the tree node, but I cannot get this to work. The tests simply do not simulate the right-click event through JavaScript, and the context menu does not show up.

Has anyone had any experience in invoking the right click on a context menu using Dojo and Selenium? Or have any ideas as to how to do it?

Answer 1

try this instead, reason what things didn't quite work is that the context menu is in fact bound to the oncontextmenu event.

function contextMenuClick(element){
    var evt = element.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents');

    var RIGHT_CLICK_BUTTON_CODE = 2; // the same for FF and IE

    evt.initMouseEvent('contextmenu', true, true,
         element.ownerDocument.defaultView, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false,
         false, false, false, RIGHT_CLICK_BUTTON_CODE, null);

    if (document.createEventObject){
        // dispatch for IE
       return element.fireEvent('onclick', evt)
     }
    else{
       // dispatch for firefox + others
      return !element.dispatchEvent(evt);
    }
}