Icons and Navigation in JavaScript Menu

24 May 202412 minutes to read

Icons

Icons are the images that is displayed in the Menu control. To specify the menu with icons you can use sprite property to display the icons.

Add the following code in your HTML page.

HTML

<div class="content-container-fluid">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="cols-sample-area">
            <ul id="menu"></ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

JAVASCRIPT

// Initialize the Menu control in JavaScript.
        var data = [
            { id: 1, text: "Group A", parentId: null },
            { id: 2, text: "Group B", parentId: null },
            { id: 3, text: "Group C", parentId: null },
            { id: 4, text: "Group D", parentId: null },
            { id: 5, text: "Group E", parentId: null },
            //first level child
            { id: 11, parentId: 1, text: "Algeria", sprite: "flag-dz" },
            { id: 12, parentId: 1, text: "Armenia", sprite: "flag-am" },
            { id: 13, parentId: 1, text: "Bangladesh", sprite: "flag-bangladesh" },
            { id: 14, parentId: 1, text: "Cuba", sprite: "flag-cu" },
            { id: 15, parentId: 2, text: "Denmark", sprite: "flag-denmark" },
            { id: 16, parentId: 2, text: "Egypt", sprite: "flag-eg" },
            { id: 17, parentId: 3, text: "Finland", sprite: "flag-fi" },
            { id: 18, parentId: 3, text: "India", sprite: "flag-in" },
            { id: 19, parentId: 3, text: "Malaysia", sprite: "flag-my" },
            { id: 20, parentId: 4, text: "New Zealand", sprite: "flag-new-zealand" },
            { id: 21, parentId: 4, text: "Norway", sprite: "flag-no" },
            { id: 22, parentId: 4, text: "Poland", sprite: "flag-pl" },
            { id: 23, parentId: 5, text: "Romania", sprite: "flag-ro" },
            { id: 24, parentId: 5, text: "Singapore", sprite: "flag-singapore" },
            { id: 25, parentId: 5, text: "Thailand", sprite: "flag-th" },
            { id: 26, parentId: 5, text: "Ukraine", sprite: "flag-ukraine" },            
        ];
    jQuery(function ($) {
        $("#menu").ejMenu({
            width: 425,
            fields: { dataSource: data, id: "id", parentId: "parentId", text: "text", spriteCssClass: "sprite" }
        });
    });

Add the following code in your style section.

CSS

<style type="text/css">
        #menu {
            margin-left: 50px;
        }
        .e-menu li > ul > li > a {
            padding: 3px 24px 3px 35px;
        }
        [class^="flag-"],
        [class*="flag-"] {
            background-image: url("../content/images/autocomplete/flags.png");
            height: 14px;
            left: 2px;
            top: 4px;
            width: 24px;
        }
        .flag-am {background-position: -25px 0;}
        .flag-bangladesh {background-position: -75px 0;}
        .flag-cu {background-position: -25px -15px;}
        .flag-denmark {background-position: -50px -15px;}
        .flag-dz {background-position: -75px -15px;}
        .flag-eg {background-position: -125px -15px;}
        .flag-fi {background-position: -25px -30px;}
        .flag-id {background-position: -100px -30px;}
        .flag-in {background-position: -125px -30px;}
        .flag-my {background-position: -25px -45px;}
        .flag-no {background-position: -75px -45px;}
        .flag-new-zealand {background-position: -100px -45px;}
        .flag-pl {background-position: -125px -45px;}
        .flag-ro {background-position: -50px -60px;}
        .flag-singapore {background-position: -100px -60px;}
        .flag-th {background-position: -125px -60px;}
        .flag-ukraine {background-position: -25px -75px;}
    </style>

The following screenshot displays the output for the above code.

NOTE

Images for this sample are available in (installed location)\Syncfusion\Essential Studio\28.1.33\JavaScript\samples\web\content\images

Navigation

Navigation in Menu control is the default usage to navigate into the other web page. You can navigate to another page in menu item by providing link to the menu items. Navigation in Menu control can be achieved by placing “href” path to the anchor tag. Use the following code sample for navigating in Menu control.

Add the following code in your HTML page.

HTML

<div>
    <ul id="link">
        <li id="searchengine">
            <a href="#">Search engine</a>
            <ul>
                <li><a href="http://www.bing.com/">Bing</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://www.google.co.in/">Google</a></li>
                <li><a href="https://in.yahoo.com/">Yahoo</a></li>
                <li><a href="http://www.rediff.com/">Rediff</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li id="atd"><a href="http://allthingsd.com/">All things digital</a></li>
        <li id="electronics">
            <a>Electronics</a>
            <ul>
                <li>
                    <a href="http://www.engadget.com/">Engadget</a>
                </li>
                <li><a href="http://www.electronista.com/">Electronista</a></li>
                <li><a href="http://www.gearlog.com/">Gear Log</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>

        <li id="cnet"><a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/">Center networks</a></li>

        <li id="webpronews">
            <a href="http://www.webpronews.com/">Webpronews</a>
        </li>

    </ul>
</div>

JAVASCRIPT

// Add the following code in your script section.
    jQuery(function ($) {
        $("#link").ejMenu({ width: 612 });
    });

The following screenshot displays the output for the above code example.

When you click on “Google” that is present under “Search engine”, it navigates to the link that you specified in the sample code. Then the output is as follows.