YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Grouped Menu Items With Titles From JavaScript

Creating a Menu from JavaScript with items organized into groups with titles

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. Add a title to each group via the setItemGroupTitle 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.

/*
     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("menuwithgroups", { fixedcenter: true });

/*
    Add items to the menu by passing a multi-dimensional 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" }
    ],

[

{ text: "Yahoo! Local", url: "http://local.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Maps", url: "http://maps.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Travel", url: "http://travel.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Shopping", url: "http://shopping.yahoo.com" } 
    
    ],

[

{ text: "Yahoo! Messenger", url: "http://messenger.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! 360", url: "http://360.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Groups", url: "http://groups.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Photos", url: "http://photos.yahoo.com" }
    
    ]

]);

// Add the title for each group of menu items

oMenu.setItemGroupTitle("Yahoo! PIM", 0);
oMenu.setItemGroupTitle("Yahoo! Search", 1);
oMenu.setItemGroupTitle("Yahoo! Communications", 2);

/*
     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: Grouped Menu Items With Titles From JavaScript

Creating a Menu from JavaScript with items organized into groups with titles

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