YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: MenuItem Configuration Properties

Setting MenuItem configuration properties

A MenuItem has a number of configuration properties that affect its behavior and visual rendering. Any of these configuration properties can be set when adding an item to its parent Menu instance by defining them in an object that is passed to the Menu's addItem, insertItem, or addItems methods. This example ulitizes the following configuration properties: text, selected, disabled, helptext, url, emphasis, strongemphasis, and checked.

/*
     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: "Selected MenuItem", selected: true },
        { text: "Disabled MenuItem", disabled: true },
        { text: "MenuItem With Help Text", helptext: "Help Me!" },
        { text: "MenuItem With A URL", url: "http://www.yahoo.com!" },
        { text: "MenuItem With Emphasis", emphasis: true },
        { text: "MenuItem With Strong Emphasis", strongemphasis: true },
        { text: "Checked MenuItem", checked: true }

]);

/*
     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: MenuItem Configuration Properties

Setting MenuItem configuration properties

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