React Menu Bar [NavBar] Component | Navigation Menu

Overview

The React 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 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

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.

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

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

Multi-level nesting

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

Integration with other components

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

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

tsx
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import { MenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import { SampleBase } from '../common/sample-base';
import './default.css';

/**
 * Menu default sample
 */
export class Default extends SampleBase<{}, {}> {
    // Menu items definition
    public 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: 'Zoom',
                    items: [
                        { text: 'Zoom In' },
                        { text: 'Zoom Out' },
                        { text: 'Reset' },
                    ]
                },
                { text: 'Full Screen' }
            ]
        },
        {
            text: 'Tools',
            items: [
                { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
                { text: 'Customize' },
                { separator: true },
                { text: 'Options' }
            ]
        },
        {
            text: 'Help'
        }
    ];

    render() {
        return (
            <div className='control-pane'>
                <div className='control-section'>
                    <div className='menu-section'>
                        <div className='menu-control'>
                            <MenuComponent items={this.menuItems}></MenuComponent>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </div>
            </div>
        )
    }
}

Other supported frameworks

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

Themes

React Menu component supports built-in themes such as Material, Bootstrap, Fabric (Office 365), Tailwind CSS, and High Contrast. Users can customize any one of these built-in themes or create new themes with ease to achieve their own desired look and feel either by simply overriding SASS variables or using our 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.

What do our customers say about us?

We're using the file formats and Windows/JavaScript list controls a lot. They're fast, easy to use, and the documentation is good and contains examples. Tickets with questions or suggestions were answered within a day, so we're happy to use the Syncfusion libraries.

Daniel Persidok

wpd onshore GmbH & Co. KG

Using Syncfusion Angular and JavaScript controls makes front-end web development a piece of cake. Each component has many properties that can be configured as per your desire, methods that can be used to interact with the element, and a lot of events that trigger at different stages, which makes modifying your components according to the state of the application an easy task. Also, their support is amazing! They always offer a sample working project, which makes it very simple to solve your question about your code.