Angular Menu Bar | Nav Bar Component

Overview

The Angular Menu Bar is a graphical user interface component that serves as a navigation header for your web application or site. It supports data binding, templates, icons, multilevel nesting, and horizontal and vertical menus.

Data binding

Menu in Angular can be bound to data in the form of JavaScript object array collection. It supports self-referential or hierarchical structure of data.

Menu data binding documentation

Angular Menu Bar data binding

Users tend to perceive visual information better than text. Include icons or sprite images to the menu items easily to provide a visual representation of the actions.

Menu icons documentation

Angular Menu Bar templates is used to create custom user experience. It provides template for each menu item to customize the entire Menu UI.

Example of menu templates

Angular Menu supports its alignment in either vertical or horizontal orientation.

Multi-level nesting

Menu supports multi-level nested items. You can browse the sub-menu by hovering or clicking a parent item.

Multi-level nesting documentation

Angular Menu with multi level nesting

Integration with other components

Angular Menu can be used with other components. Adding a menu to other components only requires simple configuration.

Built-in themes

Angular Menu supports built-in themes such as Bootstrap 5, Tailwind CSS, Fluent, high contrast, and more. Users can customize these built-in themes or create new themes to achieve the desired look and feel either by simply overriding SASS variables or using the Theme Studio application.

Theme Studio Application

Web Accessibility

Fully supports WAI-ARIA for working with screen readers and assistive devices.
Follows WAI-ARIA best practices for implementing keyboard interaction.
Based on WCAG 2.0 standards, we designed the UI element visuals such as foreground color, background color, line spacing, text and images
Supports right-to-left (RTL) text direction for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew, Arabic, or Persian.

Easily get started with the Angular Menu Bar using a few simple lines of HTML and TS code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our Angular Menu Bar Example that shows you how to render and configure a Menu Bar in Angular.

html
ts
<div id="defaultSample" class="control-section">
    <div class="menu-control">
        <ejs-menu [items]='menuItems'></ejs-menu>
    </div>
</div>
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations';

enableRipple(true);

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<!-- To Render Menu. -->
            <ejs-menu [items]='menuItems'></ejs-menu>`
})

export class AppComponent {
    public menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
        {
            text: 'File',
            items: [
                { text: 'Open' },
                { text: 'Save' },
                { text: 'Exit' }
            ]
        },
        {
            text: 'Edit',
            items: [
                { text: 'Cut' },
                { text: 'Copy' },
                { text: 'Paste' }
            ]
        },
        {
            text: 'View',
            items: [
                { text: 'Toolbar' },
                { text: 'Sidebar' }
            ]
        },
        {
            text: 'Tools',
            items: [
                { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
                { text: 'Customize' },
                { text: 'Options' }
            ]
        },
        { text: 'Go' },
        { text: 'Help' }
    ];
}

Other supported frameworks

Menu is also available in Blazor, React, Vue, and JavaScript frameworks. Check out the different Menu platforms from the links below,

Angular version compatibility

With continuous improvement in Angular versions, the Angular Menu Bar is kept up to date to make it compatible with the latest version.

Angular 11 illustration

Angular 11

Frequently Asked Questions

✅ Why should you choose Syncfusion Angular Menu Bar?

The Syncfusion Angular Menu Bar supports the following features:

Display a multilevel menu with smooth animation.
Customize menu items to include other HTML elements or controls like Checkbox, Radio Button, etc.
Utilize automatic collision detection to handle submenu flip-and-fit.
Orient the menu horizontally or vertically as a navigation drawer.
Use it as a hamburger menu to reveal a navigation menu when it is clicked.
Deploy one of the best Angular Menu Bar components on the market, providing a feature-rich UI to interact with your apps.
Enjoy simple configuration and API.
Supports all modern browsers.
Touch-friendly for mobile and responsive.
Browse extensive demos, documentation, and videos to get started quickly.

✅ Where can I find the Syncfusion Angular Menu Bar demo?

You can find our Angular Menu Bar demo here.

✅ Can I download and utilize the Syncfusion Angular Menu Bar for free?

No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue and five or fewer developers.

✅ How do I get started with Syncfusion Angular Menu Bar?

A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.

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An amazing toolset to accelerate UI development

The number of components available is the best thing about this library. We think of a UI component, and the Angular JS library already offers it. We use the Angular JS library to accelerate development. The experience using and implementing has been great. The support is also excellent.