JavaScript/jQuery ContextMenu - Customize Item Appearance

For a minor customization of ContextMenu items, you can define specific fields in item data objects. For example, the following code generates three context menu items. Between the first and the second items lies a separator dividing one group of items from another. All the items are supplied with icons.

HTML
TypeScript
  • <dx-context-menu
  • [items]="contextMenuItems"
  • target="#someElement"
  • [visible]="true">
  • </dx-context-menu>
  • import { DxContextMenuModule } from 'devextreme-angular';
  • // ...
  • export class AppComponent {
  • contextMenuItems = [
  • { text: 'Zoom In', icon: 'plus' },
  • { text: 'Share', icon: 'message', beginGroup: true },
  • { text: 'Download', icon: 'download' }
  • ];
  • }
  • @NgModule({
  • imports: [
  • // ...
  • DxContextMenuModule
  • ],
  • // ...
  • })

If you need a more flexible solution, define an itemTemplate.

HTML
TypeScript
  • <dx-context-menu
  • [items]="contextMenuItems"
  • target="#someElement"
  • itemTemplate="item"
  • [visible]="true">
  • <div *dxTemplate="let data of 'item'; let i = index">
  • <span class="dx-icon-{{data.icon}}"></span>
  • <i style="margin-left:5px">{{data.text}}</i><span> [{{i + 1}}]</span>
  • </div>
  • </dx-context-menu>
  • import { DxContextMenuModule } from "devextreme-angular";
  • // ...
  • export class AppComponent {
  • contextMenuItems = [
  • { text: "Zoom In", icon: "plus" },
  • { text: "Share", icon: "message" },
  • { text: "Download", icon: "download" }
  • ];
  • }
  • @NgModule({
  • imports: [
  • // ...
  • DxContextMenuModule
  • ],
  • // ...
  • })

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