Vue Menu - Overview

Populate Menu with Data and Configure the Access to It

You can display Menu items from the items array or a dataSource. This demo contains an example of a data structure. If you use a dataSource, specify the displayExpr property.

To access the clicked item, use the onItemClick event handler function.

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Backend API

<template> <div class="form"> <div> <div class="label">Catalog:</div> <DxMenu :data-source="products" :show-first-submenu-mode="showFirstSubmenuModes" :orientation="orientation" :hide-submenu-on-mouse-leave="hideSubmenuOnMouseLeave" display-expr="name" @item-click="itemClick" /> <div v-if="currentProduct" id="product-details" > <img :src="currentProduct.icon"> <div class="name">{{ currentProduct.name }}</div> <div class="price">{{ "$" + currentProduct.price }}</div> </div> </div> <div class="options"> <div class="caption">Options</div> <div class="option"> <div>Show First Submenu Mode</div> <DxSelectBox :items="showSubmenuModes" :input-attr="{ 'aria-label': 'Language' }" v-model:value="selectedFirstSubmenuModes" display-expr="name" value-expr="name" /> </div> <div class="option"> <div>Orientation</div> <DxSelectBox :items="['horizontal', 'vertical']" :input-attr="{ 'aria-label': 'Orientation' }" v-model:value="orientation" /> </div> <div class="option"> <DxCheckBox v-model:value="hideSubmenuOnMouseLeave" text="Hide Submenu on Mouse Leave" /> </div> </div> </div> </template> <script setup lang="ts"> import { computed, ref } from 'vue'; import DxMenu from 'devextreme-vue/menu'; import DxCheckBox from 'devextreme-vue/check-box'; import DxSelectBox from 'devextreme-vue/select-box'; import service from './data.ts'; const showSubmenuModes = [{ name: 'onHover', delay: { show: 0, hide: 500 }, }, { name: 'onClick', delay: { show: 0, hide: 300 }, }]; const products = ref(service.getProducts()); const selectedFirstSubmenuModes = ref(showSubmenuModes[1].name); const showFirstSubmenuModes = computed(() => showSubmenuModes.find( ({ name }) => selectedFirstSubmenuModes.value === name, )); const orientation = ref('horizontal'); const hideSubmenuOnMouseLeave = ref(false); const currentProduct = ref(null); function itemClick(e) { if (e.itemData.price) { currentProduct.value = e.itemData; } } </script> <style scoped> .form { margin-left: 3px; } .form > div:first-child { margin-right: 320px; } .label { font-size: 22px; padding-bottom: 24px; } #product-details { width: 400px; height: 400px; margin: 20px auto 0; } #product-details > img { height: 300px; width: 400px; } #product-details > .name { text-align: center; font-size: 20px; } #product-details > .price { text-align: center; font-size: 24px; } .dark #product-details > div { color: #f0f0f0; } .options { padding: 20px; position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; width: 260px; top: 0; background-color: rgba(191, 191, 191, 0.15); } .caption { font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; } .option { margin-top: 10px; } .hidden { visibility: hidden; } </style>

import { createApp } from 'vue'; import App from './App.vue'; createApp(App).mount('#app');

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>DevExtreme Demo</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn3.devexpress.com/jslib/24.1.7/css/dx.light.css" /> <script src="https://unpkg.com/typescript@4.9.5/lib/typescript.js"></script> <script type="module"> import * as vueCompilerSFC from "https://unpkg.com/@vue/compiler-sfc@3.4.16/dist/compiler-sfc.esm-browser.js"; window.vueCompilerSFC = vueCompilerSFC; </script> <script src="https://unpkg.com/core-js@2.6.12/client/shim.min.js"></script> <script src="https://unpkg.com/systemjs@0.21.3/dist/system.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="config.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> System.import("./index.ts"); </script> </head> <body class="dx-viewport"> <div class="demo-container"> <div id="app"> </div> </div> </body> </html>

Configure the Menu

Use the orientation property to specify whether the Menu has horizontal or vertical orientation. Use the animation property to specify the type, delay, duration, and other options of show and hide menu actions.

Configure the Submenus

Clicking or a hovering a Menu item opens a drop-down menu that can contain several submenus. To specify the drop-down menu mode ("onClick" or "onHover"), use the showSubmenuMode property. If you need only to specify the first level of drop-down menus, use the showFirstSubmenuMode property.

If you want to hide the submenu when the mouse pointer leaves it, set the hideSubmenuOnMouseLeave property to true.

Customize Item Appearance

You can define specific fields in the item data objects to change the appearance of an item. For example, use the icon property to supply items with icons. Define an itemTemplate to customize item appearance.