YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Multi-tiered Menu From Markup

Menu Family: Multi-tiered Menu From Markup

This example demonstrates how to create a multi-tiered menu using existing markup on the page.

Note: By default clicking outside of a Menu instance will hide it. Additionally, MenuItem instances without a submenu or a URL to navigate to will hide their parent Menu instance when clicked. Click the "Show Menu" button below to make the Menu instance visible if it is hidden.

Creating a Menu with submenus from existing markup

The markup for a Menu control follows that of YAHOO.widget.Module, with its body element (<div class="bd">) containing a list element (<ul>).

Each item in a Menu is represented by a list item element (<li class="yuimenuitem">), each of which has a label (<a class="yuimenuitemlabel">) that can contain plain text or HTML.

In addition to a label, each MenuItem instance can also contain a submenu. To add a submenu via markup, simply nest the Menu markup inside the (<li class="yuimenuitem">) element representing a MenuItem instance.

To instantiate a Menu based on existing HTML, pass the id of its corresponding HTML element (in this case "basicmenu") to the Menu constructor (YAHOO.widget.Menu) then call the render method with no arguments.

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