I want to create nested context menu items in Internet Explorer.

I'm familiar with adding context menu items by creating keys
under[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt].
There does not, however, appear to be a way to nest them as you would
nest normal application menus.

An example of what I'm referring to would be the "Encoding" menu item.
Right click on some white space in IE and mouse over "Encoding". It
will span about 5 nested menu items, one of which is "More". Mouse
over "More" and it will reveal another 30 or so.

---

Request for Question Clarification by netcrazy-ga on 24 May 2002 10:48 PDT

Hi,
Are you looking for creating the nested context menu items in an HTML
page in Internet Explorer or in the IE browser as such.

Thanks
netcrazy

---

Clarification of Question by dsears-ga on 24 May 2002 14:10 PDT

This is in reference to the real IE context menu. I am not looking for
HTML; this needs to be a registry modification or something
comparable.

---

Request for Question Clarification by bookface-ga on 24 May 2002 20:05 PDT

The only way I could see to do this would be to involve both a
registry modification and a seperate file on the computer containing a
javascript menu.

i.e., the registry would point to C:\file.htm, and C:\file.htm would
contain the HTML to create a menu.

Would this satisfy your requirements?

---

Clarification of Question by dsears-ga on 25 May 2002 00:45 PDT

I'm not interested in anything involving HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.

Hi dsears,
After doing an extensive search on google and other engines, it seems
that there are only 2 ways to get what you are looking for. I checked
the MS site and found these two methods of creating nested context
menus in IE.
The first involves the use of the IDocHostUIHandler interface and
allows an application to disable or replace the context menus. The
second technique, which you know, involves the use of the registry and
allows the existing context menus to be extended.
Check this site to find our more details on this and how to do this.
[ http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/overview/overview.asp
]

I hope this will help you in creating the menus. But make sure that if
you are making any changes in the registry, take a backup of the
existing registry setup and then make the changes.
Feel free to ask for clarification.
Regards,
netcrazy

---

Request for Answer Clarification by dsears-ga on 25 May 2002 13:45 PDT

Again, I'm looking for a registry modification that will allow me to
nest custom context menus. I've been over everything I can find at
Microsoft extensively, including the page you linked in your response.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but where does that page
mention anything about how to nest the menu items?

---

Clarification of Answer by netcrazy-ga on 28 May 2002 14:06 PDT

Hi again..
Sorry for not responding to you earlier. Was busy in searching a more
closer answer for you. I searched many sites and read many books to
get this but all the sites refer to how to create context menu in IE
and not "nested menus". The method is the same as I wrote to you
earlier. Every site is referring to the same registry change. But here
is one site which, I guess can help you.
Check this one :
[ http://168.144.193.113/more/A97A2KREG.htm ]
It gives a registry file to create context menu for MS Access. I tried
creating for IE and it worked. But couldn't get success for nesting
it.

You can also some test to nest the menu by making changes at this
location:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Codepage\ on your system. There is a
complete branch of registry keys which are the nested context menus
available in IE. You can give a try by creating such keys for your
requirement.
This is what I've found till now. I'm still looking for a better
possibility  for this. As soon as get this, will let you know.
I hope this will help.
Regards.

I'm satisfied that what I'm looking for is not possible. Thanks for
the thorough and exhaustive effort!