When adding context menus to large data structures like a <table> or large list (<ol> or <ul>), it is recommended to bind a single YAHOO.widget.ContextMenu instance to the structure's root element, than to each of its child nodes (<tr>s or <li>s). Doing so significantly improves the performance of a web page or application by reducing the number of "contextmenu" event handlers as well as the number of YAHOO.widget.ContextMenu instances in memory.

Begin by creating an <table> and giving <tr> elements that should have the same context menu a similar class name.

Next, use the onContentReady method of the Event utility to listen for when the <table> element is are ready to be scripted.

Inside the function passed to the Event Utility's onContentReady method, create a shortcut to the Dom Utility (since it will be used frequently) and an object literal that maps each class name to a set of MenuItem configuration properties.

Lastly, add a "triggerContextMenu" event handler to the ContextMenu instance. This event handler makes use of the "contextEventTarget" property to determine which <tr> element was the target of the "contextmenu" event. Once found, the <tr> element's class name is used to look up its corresponding menu items in the "oContextMenuItems" map, which are then added to the ContextMenu instance via the "addItems" method.