Add items to the standard QWebView context menu

Question

The implementation of QWebView has a standard context menu. I want to change it and create my own - or add "Open in new tab" to the standard context menu, and then connect it to my application. How to do it?

Answer 1

You can reimplement QWebView.contextMenuEvent:

class WebView(QtWebKit.QWebView):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(WebView, self).__init__(parent)
        self.newTabAction = QtGui.QAction('Open in new tab', self)
        self.newTabAction.triggered.connect(self.createNewTab)

    def createNewTab(self):
        url = self.newTabAction.data()
        print('create new tab:', url.toString())

    def contextMenuEvent(self, event):
        menu = self.page().createStandardContextMenu()
        hit = self.page().currentFrame().hitTestContent(event.pos())
        url = hit.linkUrl()
        if url.isValid():
            self.newTabAction.setData(url)
            menu.addAction(self.newTabAction)
        menu.exec_(event.globalPos())

If you don't want to use the standard context menu, just use QtGui.QMenu() to create your own.