Getting Started with React Menu Bar

5 Dec 202311 minutes to read

This section explains briefly about how to create a Menu control in your application with JavaScript. The Essential JavaScript Menu supports displaying a Menu of list-out items. This Menu is based on ul-li hierarchy, where the sub-list items are rendered as the sub-menu items. The Menu control can also be rendered with local and remote data source. From the following guidelines, you can learn how to customize the Menu control for a website. In this case, Syncfusion’s website Menu is discussed. The following screenshot displays the appearance of Menu.

Essential JavaScript Menu widgets are basically provided with built-in features like keyboard navigation, show and hide Menu items with animations, and flexible API’s. From the following guidelines, you can learn how to render Menu control with Remote data source value.

You can create a React application and add necessary scripts and styles with the help of the given React Getting Started Documentation.

Define an HTML element for adding Menu in the application and refer the JSX file.

HTML

<div id="menu-default"></div>
<script src="app/menu/default.js">

Create a JSX file for rendering Menu component using <EJ.Menu> syntax. Add required properties to it in <EJ.Menu> tag element

JAVASCRIPT

"use strict";

ReactDOM.render(
    <div className="imgframe">
    <EJ.Menu width="100%">
    </EJ.Menu>
    </div>,
document.getElementById('menu-default')
);

Output of the above steps.

Every Menu has a list of Menu items with list of sub level Menu items. From the following guidelines, you can learn how to initialize the root level elements of Menu control with Local data source value. Initialize the Menu with data source value as illustrated in the following code example.

HTML

<div id="menu-default"></div>
<script src="app/menu/default.js">

JAVASCRIPT

"use strict";
var data = [
            { id: 1, text: "Products", parentId: null },
            { id: 2, text: "Support", parentId: null },
            { id: 3, text: "Purchase", parentId: null },
            { id: 4, text: "Downloads", parentId: null },
			{ id: 5, text: "Company", parentId: null }];
ReactDOM.render(
    <div className="imgframe">
    <EJ.Menu fields-dataSource ={data} fields-id="id" fields-text="text" fields-parentid="parentId" width="500px">
    </EJ.Menu>
    </div>,
document.getElementById('menu-default')
);

The following screenshot displays output.

Every Menu items have a list of sub level Menu items. From the following guidelines, you can learn how to initialize the sub level items of Menu control. The parentId field is used to map root level Menu item to its sub level Menu item.

The following code example describes how to initialize first level sub menu items of product Menu item.

JAVASCRIPT

"use strict";
var data = [
            { id: 1, text: "Products", parentId: null },
            { id: 2, text: "Support", parentId: null },
            { id: 3, text: "Purchase", parentId: null },
            { id: 4, text: "Downloads", parentId: null },
			{ id: 5, text: "Company", parentId: null },
            //first level child
            { id: 11, parentId: 1, text: "ASP.NET" },
            { id: 12, parentId: 1, text: "ASP.NET MVC" },
            { id: 13, parentId: 1, text: "Mobile MVC" },
            { id: 14, parentId: 1, text: "Silverlight" },
            { id: 15, parentId: 2, text: "Direct-Trac Support" },
            { id: 16, parentId: 2, text: "Community Forums" },
            { id: 17, parentId: 2, text: "Knowledge Base" },
            { id: 18, parentId: 2, text: "Services" },
			{ id: 19, parentId: 4, text: "Evaluation" },
			{ id: 20, parentId: 4, text: "Free E-Books" },
			{ id: 21, parentId: 4, text: "Metro Studio" },
			{ id: 22, parentId: 4, text: "Latest Version" },
			{ id: 23, parentId: 5, text: "Technology Resource Portal " },
			{ id: 24, parentId: 5, text: "Case Studies" },
			{ id: 25, parentId: 5, text: "Bouchers & Datasheets" },
			{ id: 26, parentId: 5, text: "FAQ" }                   
        ];
ReactDOM.render(
    <div className="imgframe">
    <EJ.Menu fields-dataSource ={data} width="100%">
    </EJ.Menu>
    </div>,
document.getElementById('menu-default')
);

Execute the above code example to render the following output.

You can define the sub-menu items to multiple levels in Menu control. You need to specify the parent Id value to render sub level Menu item for the Menu items.

To initialize multiple levels sub menu items, use the following code example.

JAVASCRIPT

"use strict";
 var data = [
            { id: 1, text: "Products", parentId: null },
            { id: 2, text: "Support", parentId: null },
            { id: 3, text: "Purchase", parentId: null },
            { id: 4, text: "Downloads", parentId: null },
			{ id: 5, text: "Company", parentId: null },
            //first level child
            { id: 11, parentId: 1, text: "ASP.NET" },
            { id: 12, parentId: 1, text: "ASP.NET MVC" },
            { id: 13, parentId: 1, text: "Mobile MVC" },
            { id: 14, parentId: 1, text: "Silverlight" },
            { id: 15, parentId: 2, text: "Direct-Trac Support" },
            { id: 16, parentId: 2, text: "Community Forums" },
            { id: 17, parentId: 2, text: "Knowledge Base" },
            { id: 18, parentId: 2, text: "Services" },
			{ id: 19, parentId: 4, text: "Evaluation" },
			{ id: 20, parentId: 4, text: "Free E-Books" },
			{ id: 21, parentId: 4, text: "Metro Studio" },
			{ id: 22, parentId: 4, text: "Latest Version" },
			{ id: 23, parentId: 5, text: "Technology Resource Portal " },
			{ id: 24, parentId: 5, text: "Case Studies" },
			{ id: 25, parentId: 5, text: "Bouchers & Datasheets" },
			{ id: 26, parentId: 5, text: "FAQ" },
            //second level child
            {id: 111, parentId: 18, text: "Consulting" },
            { id: 112, parentId: 18, text: "Training" }            
        ];
ReactDOM.render(
    <div className="imgframe">
    <EJ.Menu fields-dataSource ={data} width="100%">
    </EJ.Menu>
    </div>,
document.getElementById('menu-default')
);

The following screenshot is the output.

By following the above mentioned steps, you can render the Menu control with multiple level sub items through online data source. You can simply customize the Menu widget in an efficient manner.

In summary of this getting started, you have now simulated the Syncfusion�s website Menu with Essential JavaScript Menu. You have utilized and learn the appearance customization etc.

By following the above mentioned steps, you can render the Menu control with multiple level sub items. You can simply customize the Menu in an efficient manner.

Getting Started with React Menu Bar

Create a Menu in React JS

Configure parent Menu items

Initialize sub-level Menu items

Define multiple level Menu items