Hiding ECB menu items

Question

Hello,
I would like to hide menu items in the Edit Control Block Menu, such as publish/unpublish. I'm using SharePoint 2013, and have have tried to use jquery but don't find the element to use it on. Or is there another way to accomplish this? Have searched on
Google for hours but don't find anthing useful. 
//Kjell

Answer 1

There's no good way of doing this as fas as I know. We've implemented a kind of hacking solution for our project. SharePoint calls a method 'BuildMenu' from core.js file to build
the ECB menu. We've done the followings:
We've copied the same method in our own custom js file and added our hiding logic at the end of the method
Then the custom js file is referenced in our mater page (after core.js, to ensure our method is inserted last in DOM overriding SharePoint one)
The code will looking like below:
function BuildMenu(ctxt) {
var m = CMenu(currentItemID + "_menu");
if (m == null)
return null;
else if (Boolean(ctxt.isVersions))
AddVersionMenuItems(m, ctxt);
else if (ctxt.listTemplate == 121)
AddSolutionsCatalogMenuItems(m, ctxt);
else if (ctxt.listBaseType == 1)
AddDocLibMenuItems(m, ctxt);
else if (ctxt.listTemplate == 200)
AddMeetingMenuItems(m, ctxt);
else
AddListMenuItems(m, ctxt);
InsertFeatureMenuItems(m, ctxt);
//our custom code to hide menu item
for (var i = 0; i < m.childNodes.length; i++) {
if (m.childNodes[i].attributes["text"] != null) {
if (m.childNodes[i].attributes["text"].value=='Menu title to hide') {
m.childNodes[i].style.display = 'none';
return m;
SP.SOD.notifyEventAndExecuteWaitingJobs("CleanupContextMenu", [m, ctxt]);
return m;
I agree this is hacking, but there's no other way we've found.
Thanks,
Sohel Rana
http://ranaictiu-technicalblog.blogspot.com