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.

/*
     Instantiate the menu.  The first argument passed to the 
     constructor is the id of the DOM element to be created for the 
     menu; the second is an object literal representing a set of 
     configuration properties for the menu.
*/

var oMenu = new YAHOO.widget.Menu("basicmenu", { fixedcenter: true });

/*
    Add items to the menu by passing an array of object literals 
    (each of which represents a set of YAHOO.widget.MenuItem 
    configuration properties) to the "addItems" method.
*/

oMenu.addItems([

{ text: "Yahoo! Mail", url: "http://mail.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Address Book", url: "http://addressbook.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Calendar", url: "http://calendar.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Notepad",  url: "http://notepad.yahoo.com" }

]);

/*
     Since this menu is built completely from script, call the "render" 
     method passing in the id of the DOM element that the menu's 
     root element should be appended to.
*/

oMenu.render("rendertarget");

YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Basic Menu From JavaScript

Creating a Menu from JavaScript

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