This question is more of a Javascript question, but I figure fellow
AJAX users have probably come across this long before I have. I'm
trying to create a small context popup on the page when the user right
clicks the page. The context menu is a simple table hidden on the
screen that is moved to the user's cursor and displayed. My audience
is 100% I.E. so cross-browser compatibility isn't as important as it
would be on an externtal web page.

The problem I'm having is I cannot stop the default right-click action
in IE which displays the full IE context menu. The following code
cancels the event *only* if I put an alert() in it at some point, even
with the cancelBubble() and returnValue() functions.

<script language="javascript">
    function CheckButton(evt)
    {
        var button = event.button;
        switch (button)
        {
            case 2:
                MoveContextBox();
                evt.cancelBubble = true;
                evt.returnValue = false
                break;
            case 1:
                alert("Button 1!");
                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
        event.cancelBubble = true;
        event.returnValue = false
        return false;
    }
</script>

<table>
<tr onclick="CheckButton()">
    <td>1</td>
    <td>2</td>
</tr>
</table>

Have you run across this before and is there a fix for it?

Thanks!
R

Oops, the table event should be:

<table>
<tr onmouseup="CheckButton()">
    <td>1</td>
    <td>2</td>
</tr>
</table>

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