Unable to trigger open from element inside

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I have a trigger element that looks like:

and javascirpt that looks like

$('#menu-a').contextMenu('menu',$('#menu-ul'),
{
displayAround: 'trigger',
position: 'bottom'
});

I also want to trigger on the menu-i item, I can replace the '#menu-a' with '#menu-i' and it will
trigger on the inner (FA icon) but can't get it to trigger on both. I have tried both the
contextMenu('open') and the option to triggerOn but neither works.

What is the correct way to get the trigger to work on all the elements inside the trigger?

thanks.