diff --git a/js/src/qgrid.css b/js/src/qgrid.css
index a0553074..414980c2 100644
--- a/js/src/qgrid.css
+++ b/js/src/qgrid.css
@@ -429,6 +429,28 @@
   border-left: 1px solid #cccccc;
 }
 
+/* Context menu */
+
+.q-grid-container #contextMenu {
+  background: rgb(245, 245, 245);
+  border: 1px solid gray;
+  padding: 2px;
+  display: inline-block;
+  min-width: 100px;
+  -moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px silver;
+  -webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 2px silver;
+  z-index: 99999;
+}
+
+.q-grid-container #contextMenu li {
+  padding: 4px 4px 4px 14px;
+  list-style: none;
+}
+
+.q-grid-container #contextMenu li:hover {
+  background-color: #cccccc;
+}
+
 /* Filter dropdowns */
 
 .q-grid-container .grid-filter {
diff --git a/js/src/qgrid.widget.js b/js/src/qgrid.widget.js
index 9cfe94df..8d514433 100644
--- a/js/src/qgrid.widget.js
+++ b/js/src/qgrid.widget.js
@@ -401,6 +401,31 @@ class QgridView extends widgets.DOMWidgetView {
     );
     this.grid_elem.data('slickgrid', this.slick_grid);
 
+    if (this.grid_options.context_menu){
+      this.slick_grid.onContextMenu.subscribe((e) => {
+      
+        //calculate x,y position for the context menu
+        e.preventDefault();
+        var bounds = this.$el[0].getBoundingClientRect();
+        var x = e.pageX - bounds.left;
+        var y = e.pageY - bounds.top;
+  
+        var cell = this.slick_grid.getCellFromEvent(e);
+        if (cell.cell<=0)
+          return;
+
+        var column = this.columns[cell.cell].name;
+        var data_item = this.slick_grid.getDataItem(cell.row);
+        this.send({
+          type: 'show_context_menu',
+          x,
+          y,
+          'row_index': data_item.row_index,
+          column
+        })
+      });
+    }
+
     if (this.grid_options.forceFitColumns){
       this.grid_elem.addClass('force-fit-columns');
     }
@@ -789,6 +814,8 @@ class QgridView extends widgets.DOMWidgetView {
     } else if (msg.col_info) {
       var filter = this.filters[msg.col_info.name];
       filter.handle_msg(msg);
+    } else if (msg.type == 'show_context_menu'){
+      this.show_context_menu(msg.x, msg.y, msg.index, msg.column, msg.items)
     }
   }
 
@@ -802,6 +829,36 @@ class QgridView extends widgets.DOMWidgetView {
     }
   }
 
+  show_context_menu (x,y, index, column, items) {
+    if (!this.context_elem) {
+      this.context_elem = $(`<ul id='contextMenu' style='display:none;position:absolute'</ul>`).appendTo(this.$el);
+    }
+    this.context_elem.empty();
+    $.each(items, (k,v) => {$(`<li key=${k}>${v}</li>`).appendTo(this.context_elem)});
+
+    this.context_elem
+        .data({index, column})
+        .css("top", y)
+        .css("left", x)
+        .show();
+
+    this.context_elem.find('li').one("click", e => {
+      var index = this.context_elem.data("index");
+      var column = this.context_elem.data("column");
+      var key = $(e.target).attr('key')
+      this.send({
+        'type': 'context_menu_item_clicked',
+        key,
+        index,
+        column
+      })
+    });
+
+    $("body").one("click", () => {
+      this.context_elem.hide();
+    });
+  }
+
   /**
    * Update the size of the dataframe.
    */
diff --git a/qgrid/grid.py b/qgrid/grid.py
index b0e76dde..aeebd79e 100644
--- a/qgrid/grid.py
+++ b/qgrid/grid.py
@@ -325,7 +325,8 @@ def show_grid(data_frame,
               grid_options=None,
               column_options=None,
               column_definitions=None,
-              row_edit_callback=None):
+              row_edit_callback=None,
+              context_menu = None):
     """
     Renders a DataFrame or Series as an interactive qgrid, represented by
     an instance of the ``QgridWidget`` class.  The ``QgridWidget`` instance
@@ -377,6 +378,27 @@ def show_grid(data_frame,
         particular row's values, keyed by column name. The callback should
         return True if the provided row should be editable, and False
         otherwise.
+    context_menu : dict
+        A dict contains two callables to be used for handling the context menu.
+        Items in the context menu are dynamically generated based on the cell.
+         
+        ``
+        context_menu = {
+            'items_callback' : ... callable(index, column)
+            'click_callback' : ... callable(index, column, key)
+        }
+        ``
+        
+        The ``items_callback`` takes the follwoing parameters:
+            * **index** The index of the row that contains the clicked cell.
+            * **column** The name of the column that contains the clicked cell.
+        
+        And it returns a dictionary of key-value strings to be shown in the 
+        context menu. 
+
+        Then ``click_callback`` takes one more parameter in addition to the 
+        previous parameters: 
+            * **key** The key of the context menu item that was clicked.
 
 
     Notes
@@ -487,6 +509,12 @@ def show_grid(data_frame,
         options = defaults.grid_options.copy()
         options.update(grid_options)
         grid_options = options
+
+    if context_menu:
+        grid_options['context_menu'] = True
+    else:
+        context_menu = {}
+
     if not isinstance(grid_options, dict):
         raise TypeError(
             "grid_options must be dict, not %s" % type(grid_options)
@@ -508,7 +536,8 @@ def show_grid(data_frame,
                        column_options=column_options,
                        column_definitions=column_definitions,
                        row_edit_callback=row_edit_callback,
-                       show_toolbar=show_toolbar)
+                       show_toolbar=show_toolbar,
+                       context_menu=context_menu)
 
 
 PAGE_SIZE = 100
@@ -607,6 +636,7 @@ class can be constructed directly but that's not recommended because
     column_options = Dict({})
     column_definitions = Dict({})
     row_edit_callback = Instance(FunctionType, sync=False, allow_none=True)
+    context_menu = Dict({})
     show_toolbar = Bool(False, sync=True)
     id = Unicode(sync=True)
 
@@ -1549,6 +1579,22 @@ def _handle_qgrid_msg_helper(self, content):
                 'name': 'filter_changed',
                 'column': content['field']
             })
+        elif content['type'] == 'show_context_menu':
+            x, y, row_index, column = content['x'], content['y'], content['row_index'], content['column']
+            index = self._df.index[row_index]
+            items = self.context_menu['items_callback'](index, column)
+            if items and isinstance(items, dict):
+                self.send({
+                    'type': 'show_context_menu',
+                    'x': x,
+                    'y': y,
+                    'index': index,
+                    'column': column,
+                    'items': items
+                })
+        elif content['type'] == 'context_menu_item_clicked':
+            index, column, key = content['index'], content['column'], content['key']
+            self.context_menu['click_callback'](index, column, key)
 
     def _notify_listeners(self, event):
         # notify listeners at the module level