YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Basic Menu From JavaScript

Creating a Menu from JavaScript

To create a Menu with no pre-existing markup on the page, call the Menu constructor (YAHOO.widget.Menu) passing the id of the Menu element to be created as the first argument.

Add items to a Menu instance via the addItem, insertItem, or addItems methods.

Finally, it is necessary to call the render method passing the id of, or reference to the element the Menu should be appended to.


1	/*
2	Instantiate a Menu: The first argument passed to the constructor
3	is the id for the Menu element to be created, the second is an
4	object literal of configuration properties.
5	*/
6
7	var oMenu = new YAHOO.widget.Menu("basicmenu", { fixedcenter: true });
8
9
10	/*
11	Add items to the Menu instance by passing an array of object literals
12	(each of which represents a set of YAHOO.widget.MenuItem
13	configuration properties) to the "addItems" method.
14	*/
15
16	oMenu.addItems([
17
18	{ text: "Yahoo! Mail", url: "http://mail.yahoo.com" },
19	{ text: "Yahoo! Address Book", url: "http://addressbook.yahoo.com" },
20	{ text: "Yahoo! Calendar", url: "http://calendar.yahoo.com" },
21	{ text: "Yahoo! Notepad", url: "http://notepad.yahoo.com" }
22
23	]);
24
25
26	/*
27	Since this Menu instance is built completely from script, call the
28	"render" method passing in the DOM element that it should be
29	appended to.
30	*/
31
32	oMenu.render("rendertarget");
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YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Basic Menu From JavaScript

Creating a Menu from JavaScript

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