This example demonstrates how to group MenuItem instances.
Note: By default clicking outside of a Menu instance will hide it. Additionally, MenuItem instances without a submenu or a URL to navigate to will hide their parent Menu instance when clicked. Click the "Show Menu" button below to make the Menu instance visible if it is hidden.
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.
Items can be organized into groups by creating a multi-dimensional array
of YAHOO.widget.MenuItem configuration properties and passing it to the
addItems
method.
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("menuwithgroups", { fixedcenter: true }); |
8 | |
9 | /* |
10 | Add items to the Menu instance by passing an array of object literals |
11 | (each of which represents a set of YAHOO.widget.MenuItem |
12 | configuration properties) to the "addItems" method. |
13 | */ |
14 | |
15 | oMenu.addItems([ |
16 | |
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 | { text: "Yahoo! Local", url: "http://local.yahoo.com" }, |
27 | { text: "Yahoo! Maps", url: "http://maps.yahoo.com" }, |
28 | { text: "Yahoo! Travel", url: "http://travel.yahoo.com" }, |
29 | { text: "Yahoo! Shopping", url: "http://shopping.yahoo.com" } |
30 | |
31 | ], |
32 | |
33 | [ |
34 | |
35 | { text: "Yahoo! Messenger", url: "http://messenger.yahoo.com" }, |
36 | { text: "Yahoo! 360", url: "http://360.yahoo.com" }, |
37 | { text: "Yahoo! Groups", url: "http://groups.yahoo.com" }, |
38 | { text: "Flickr Photo Sharing", url: "http://www.flickr.com" } |
39 | |
40 | ] |
41 | |
42 | ]); |
43 | |
44 | |
45 | /* |
46 | Since this Menu instance is built completely from script, call the |
47 | "render" method passing in the DOM element that it should be |
48 | appended to. |
49 | */ |
50 | |
51 | oMenu.render("rendertarget"); |
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