JavaScript Menu Bar - Flexible Orientation Navigation Menu

Overview

The JavaScript Menu Bar is a graphical user interface control 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 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

Menu Item Icons

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 Templates

Templates is used to create custom user experience. Menu provides template for each menu item to customize the entire Menu UI.

Integration with other controls

JavaScript Menu can be used with other controls. Adding a menu to other controls only requires simple configuration.

JavaScript Menu Code Example

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

<div class="control-section">
    <div class="content-wrapper">
        <div id="menubar">
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

import { loadCultureFiles } from '../common/culture-loader';
import { Menu, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-navigations';
loadCultureFiles();    
    let menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
        {
            text: 'File',
            iconCss: 'em-icons e-file',
            items: [
                { text: 'Open', iconCss: 'em-icons e-open' },
                { text: 'Save', iconCss: 'em-icons e-save' },
                { separator: true },
                { text: 'Exit' }
            ]
        },
        {
            text: 'Edit',
            iconCss: 'em-icons e-edit',
            items: [
                { text: 'Cut', iconCss: 'em-icons e-cut' },
                { text: 'Copy', iconCss: 'em-icons e-copy' },
                { text: 'Paste', iconCss: 'em-icons e-paste' }
            ]
        },
        {
            text: 'View',
            items: [
                {
                    text: 'Toolbars',
                    items: [
                        { text: 'Menu Bar' },
                        { text: 'Bookmarks Toolbar' },
                        { text: 'Customize' },
                    ]
                },
                { text: 'Full Screen' }
            ]
        },
    ];
    new Menu({ items: menuItems }, '#menubar');

Other supported frameworks

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

• Blazor Menu Bar

• React Menu Bar

• Angular Menu Bar

• Vue Menu Bar

Built-in themes

JavaScript 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.