fixing iOS "click" compatibility problem - #83

Author: rodneyrehm

README.md

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ $.contextMenu is published under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/lic
 * adding export of internal functions and event handlers - ([Issue 101](https://github.com/medialize/jQuery-contextMenu/issues/101))
 * adding class `context-menu-active` to define state on active trigger element - ([Issue 92](https://github.com/medialize/jQuery-contextMenu/issues/92))
 * adding [demo for TouchSwipe](http://medialize.github.com/jQuery-contextMenu/demo/trigger-swipe.html) activation
+* fixing iOS "click" compatibility problem - ([Issue 83](https://github.com/medialize/jQuery-contextMenu/issues/83))
 
 
 ### 1.5.25 ###

demo/trigger-swipe.html

@@ -80,10 +80,14 @@ <h3 id="code">Example code: Swipe Trigger</h3>
             "edit": {name: "Edit", icon: "edit"},
             "cut": {name: "Cut", icon: "cut"},
             "copy": {name: "Copy", icon: "copy"},
-            "paste": {name: "Paste", icon: "paste"},
-            "delete": {name: "Delete", icon: "delete"},
-            "sep1": "---------",
-            "quit": {name: "Quit", icon: "quit"}
+            "fold1a": {
+                "name": "Some submenu", 
+                "items": {
+                    "fold1a-key1": {"name": "echo"},
+                    "fold1a-key2": {"name": "foxtrot"},
+                    "fold1a-key3": {"name": "golf"}
+                }
+            }
         }
     });
 });

src/jquery.contextMenu.js

@@ -927,6 +927,10 @@ var // currently active contextMenu trigger
                     $label = null,
                     $input = null;
 
+                // iOS needs to see a click-event bound to an element to actually
+                // have the TouchEvents infrastructure trigger the click event
+                $t.on('click', $.noop);
+                
                 item.$node = $t.data({
                     'contextMenu': opt,
                     'contextMenuRoot': root,