YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Grouped Menu Items With Titles From JavaScript

Creating a Menu from JavaScript with items organized into groups with titles

To create a Menu with no pre-existing markup on the page, call the Menu constructor (YAHOO.widget.Menu) passing the id of the Menu element to be created as the first argument.

Add items to a Menu instance via the addItem, insertItem, or addItems methods.

Items can be organized into groups by creating a multi-dimensional array of YAHOO.widget.MenuItem configuration properties and passing it to the addItems method. Add a title to each group via the setItemGroupTitle method.

Finally, it is necessary to call the render method passing the id of, or reference to the element the Menu should be appended to.

/*
	Instantiate a Menu:  The first argument passed to the constructor
	is the id for the Menu element to be created, the second is an 
	object literal of configuration properties.
*/

var oMenu = new YAHOO.widget.Menu("menuwithgroups", { fixedcenter: true });

/*
    Add items to the Menu instance by passing an array of object literals 
    (each of which represents a set of YAHOO.widget.MenuItem 
    configuration properties) to the "addItems" method.
*/

oMenu.addItems([

[
        { text: "Yahoo! Mail", url: "http://mail.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Address Book", url: "http://addressbook.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Calendar", url: "http://calendar.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Notepad", url: "http://notepad.yahoo.com" }
    ],

[

{ text: "Yahoo! Local", url: "http://local.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Maps", url: "http://maps.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Travel", url: "http://travel.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Shopping", url: "http://shopping.yahoo.com" } 
    
    ],

[

{ text: "Yahoo! Messenger", url: "http://messenger.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! 360", url: "http://360.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Yahoo! Groups", url: "http://groups.yahoo.com" },
        { text: "Flickr Photo Sharing", url: "http://www.flickr.com" }
    
    ]

]);

// Add the title for each group of menu items

oMenu.setItemGroupTitle("Yahoo! PIM", 0);
oMenu.setItemGroupTitle("Yahoo! Search", 1);
oMenu.setItemGroupTitle("Yahoo! Communications", 2);

/*
    Since this Menu instance is built completely from script, call the 
    "render" method passing in the DOM element that it should be 
    appended to.
*/

oMenu.render("rendertarget");

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