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# Plugin commands

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- [Disable a contextMenu trigger](#disable-a-contextmenu-trigger)
- [Enable a contextMenu trigger](#enable-a-contextmenu-trigger)
- [Manually show a contextMenu](#manually-show-a-contextmenu)
- [Manually hide a contextMenu](#manually-hide-a-contextmenu)
- [Unregister all contextMenus](#unregister-all-contextmenus)

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## Disable a contextMenu trigger

disable contextMenu to be shown on specified trigger elements

```
$(".some-selector").contextMenu(false);
```


## Enable a contextMenu trigger

enable contextMenu to be shown on specified trigger elements

```
$(".some-selector").contextMenu(true);
```

## Manually show a contextMenu

show the contextMenu of the first element of the selector (position determined by determinePosition):

```
$(".some-selector").contextMenu();
$(".some-selector").contextMenu({x: 123, y: 123});
```

## Manually hide a contextMenu

hide the contextMenu of the first element of the selector:

```
$(".some-selector").contextMenu("hide");
Unregister contextMenu
```


To unregister / destroy a specific contextMenu:

```
$.contextMenu( 'destroy', selector );
```

selector expects the (string) selector that the contextMenu was registered to

## Unregister all contextMenus

To unregister / destroy all contextMenus:

```
$.contextMenu( 'destroy' );
```