@material/menu

What is @material/menu?

@material/menu is a Material Design menu component for the web. It provides a simple way to create menus that follow the Material Design guidelines, including support for nested menus, keyboard navigation, and accessibility features.

What are @material/menu's main functionalities?

Basic Menu

This code demonstrates how to create a basic menu using the @material/menu package. It initializes a menu component and opens it.

import {MDCMenu} from '@material/menu';

const menu = new MDCMenu(document.querySelector('.mdc-menu'));
menu.open = true;

Menu with Items

This code shows how to create a menu with items and add an event listener to handle item clicks.

import {MDCMenu} from '@material/menu';

const menu = new MDCMenu(document.querySelector('.mdc-menu'));
menu.open = true;

const listItem = document.querySelector('.mdc-list-item');
listItem.addEventListener('click', () => {
  console.log('Item clicked');
});

Nested Menus

This code demonstrates how to create nested menus using the @material/menu package. It initializes a parent menu and a child menu, and opens the child menu when an item in the parent menu is clicked.

import {MDCMenu} from '@material/menu';

const parentMenu = new MDCMenu(document.querySelector('.mdc-menu-parent'));
const childMenu = new MDCMenu(document.querySelector('.mdc-menu-child'));

parentMenu.open = true;

const parentItem = document.querySelector('.mdc-list-item-parent');
parentItem.addEventListener('click', () => {
  childMenu.open = true;
});

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README

MDC Menu

The MDC Menu component is a spec-aligned menu component adhering to the Material Design menu specification. It implements simple menus. Menus require JavaScript to work correctly, but the open and closed states are correct on first render.

Installation

npm install --save @material/menu

Simple menu usage

A simple menu is usually closed, appearing when opened. It is appropriate for any display size.

<div class="mdc-simple-menu" tabindex="-1">
  <ul class="mdc-simple-menu__items mdc-list" role="menu" aria-hidden="true">
    <li class="mdc-list-item" role="menuitem" tabindex="0">
      A Menu Item
    </li>
    <li class="mdc-list-item" role="menuitem" tabindex="0">
      Another Menu Item
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Note: adding a tabindex of 0 to the menu items places them in the tab order. Adding a tabindex of -1 to the root element makes it programmatically focusable, without placing it in the tab order. This allows the menu to be focused on open, so that the next Tab keypress moves to the first menu item. If you would like the first menu item to be automatically focused instead, remove tabindex="-1" from the root element.

let menu = new mdc.menu.MDCSimpleMenu(document.querySelector('.mdc-simple-menu'));
// Add event listener to some button to toggle the menu on and off.
document.querySelector('.some-button').addEventListener('click', () => menu.open = !menu.open);

You can start the menu in its open state by adding the mdc-simple-menu--open class to your HTML:

<div class="mdc-simple-menu mdc-simple-menu--open">
...
</div>

Positioning the menu

The menu can either be positioned manually, or automatically, by anchoring it to an element.

Automatic Positioning

The menu understands the concept of an anchor, which it can use to determine how to position itself, and which corner to open from.

The anchor can either be a visible element that the menu is a child of:

<div class="toolbar mdc-menu-anchor">
  <div class="mdc-simple-menu">
  ...
  </div>
</div>

or a wrapper element that contains the actual visible element to attach to:

<div class="mdc-menu-anchor">
  <button>Open Menu</button>
  <div class="mdc-simple-menu">
  ...
  </div>
</div>

Note: overflow: visible and position: relative will be set on the element with mdc-menu-anchor to ensure that the menu is positioned and displayed correctly.

The menu will check if its parent element has the mdc-menu-anchor class set, and if so, it will automatically position itself relative to this anchor element. It will open from the top left (top right in RTL) corner of the anchor by default, but will choose an appropriate different corner if close to the edge of the screen.

Manual Positioning

The menu is position: absolute by default, and must be positioned by the user when doing manual positioning.

<div class="container">
  <div class="mdc-simple-menu" style="top:0; left: 0;">
  ...
  </div>
</div>

The menu will open from the top left by default (top right in RTL). Depending on how you've positioned your button, you may want to change the point it opens from. To override the opening point, you can style transform-origin directly, or use one of the following convenience classes:

class name	description
mdc-simple-menu--open-from-top-left	Open the menu from the top left.
mdc-simple-menu--open-from-top-right	Open the menu from the top right.
mdc-simple-menu--open-from-bottom-left	Open the menu from the bottom left.
mdc-simple-menu--open-from-bottom-right	Open the menu from the bottom right.

Using the JS Component

MDC Simple Menu ships with a Component / Foundation combo which allows for frameworks to richly integrate the correct menu behaviors into idiomatic components.

The component has a read-write property, open, which keeps track of the visual state of the component.

// Analyse current state.
console.log('The menu is ' + (menu.open ? 'open' : 'closed'));
// Open menu.
menu.open = true;
// Close menu.
menu.open = false;

It also has two lower level methods, which control the menu directly, by showing (opening) and hiding (closing) it:

// Show (open) menu.
menu.show();
// Hide (close) menu.
menu.hide();
// Show (open) menu, and focus the menu item at index 1.
menu.show({focusIndex: 1});

You can still use the open getter property even if showing and hiding directly:

menu.show();
console.log(`Menu is ${menu.open ? 'open' : 'closed'}.`);

Including in code

ES2015

import {MDCSimpleMenu, MDCSimpleMenuFoundation} from 'mdc-menu';

CommonJS

const mdcMenu = require('mdc-menu');
const MDCSimpleMenu = mdcMenu.MDCSimpleMenu;
const MDCSimpleMenuFoundation = mdcMenu.MDCSimpleMenuFoundation;

AMD

require(['path/to/mdc-menu'], mdcMenu => {
  const MDCSimpleMenu = mdcMenu.MDCSimpleMenu;
  const MDCSimpleMenuFoundation = mdcMenu.MDCSimpleMenuFoundation;
});

Global

const MDCSimpleMenu = mdc.Menu.MDCSimpleMenu;
const MDCSimpleMenuFoundation = mdc.Menu.MDCSimpleMenuFoundation;

Automatic Instantiation

If you do not care about retaining the component instance for the simple menu, simply call attachTo() and pass it a DOM element.

mdc.MDCSimpleMenu.attachTo(document.querySelector('.mdc-simple-menu'));

Manual Instantiation

Simple menus can easily be initialized using their default constructors as well, similar to attachTo.

import MDCSimpleMenu from 'mdc-menu';

const menu = new MDCSimpleMenu(document.querySelector('.mdc-simple-menu'));

Handling selection events

When a menu item is selected, the menu component will emit a MDCSimpleMenu:selected custom event with the following detail data:

property name	type	description
item	HTMLElement	The DOM element for the selected item
index	number	The index of the selected item

If the menu is closed with no selection made (for example, if the user hits Escape while it's open), a MDCSimpleMenu:cancel custom event is emitted instead, with no data attached.

Using the Foundation Class

MDC Simple Menu ships with an MDCSimpleMenuFoundation class that external frameworks and libraries can use to integrate the component. As with all foundation classes, an adapter object must be provided. The adapter for temporary drawers must provide the following functions, with correct signatures:

Method Signature	Description
addClass(className: string) => void	Adds a class to the root element.
removeClass(className: string) => void	Removes a class from the root element.
hasClass(className: string) => boolean	Returns boolean indicating whether element has a given class.
hasNecessaryDom() => boolean	Returns boolean indicating whether the necessary DOM is present (namely, the mdc-simple-menu__items container).
getInnerDimensions() => {width: number, height: number}	Returns an object with the items container width and height
hasAnchor: () => boolean	Returns whether the menu has an anchor for positioning.
getAnchorDimensions() => { width: number, height: number, top: number, right: number, bottom: number, left: number }	Returns an object with the dimensions and position of the anchor (same semantics as DOMRect).
getWindowDimensions() => {width: number, height: number}	Returns an object with width and height of the page, in pixels.
setScale(x: string, y: string) => void	Sets the transform on the root element to the provided (x, y) scale.
setInnerScale(x: string, y: string) => void	Sets the transform on the items container to the provided (x, y) scale.
getNumberOfItems() => numbers	Returns the number of item elements inside the items container. In our vanilla component, we determine this by counting the number of list items whose role attribute corresponds to the correct child role of the role present on the menu list element. For example, if the list element has a role of menu this queries for all elements that have a role of menuitem.
registerInteractionHandler(type: string, handler: EventListener) => void	Adds an event listener handler for event type type.
deregisterInteractionHandler(type: string, handler: EventListener) => void	Removes an event listener handler for event type type.
registerDocumentClickHandler(handler: EventListener) => void	Adds an event listener handler for event type 'click'.
deregisterDocumentClickHandler(handler: EventListener) => void	Removes an event listener handler for event type 'click'.
getYParamsForItemAtIndex(index: number) => {top: number, height: number}	Returns an object with the offset top and offset height values for the item element inside the items container at the provided index. Note that this is an index into the list of item elements, and not necessarily every child element of the list.
setTransitionDelayForItemAtIndex(index: number, value: string) => void	Sets the transition delay on the element inside the items container at the provided index to the provided value. The same notice for index applies here as above.
getIndexForEventTarget(target: EventTarget) => number	Checks to see if the target of an event pertains to one of the menu items, and if so returns the index of that item. Returns -1 if the target is not one of the menu items. The same notice for index applies here as above.
notifySelected(evtData: {index: number}) => void	Dispatches an event notifying listeners that a menu item has been selected. The function should accept an evtData parameter containing the an object with an index property representing the index of the selected item. Implementations may choose to supplement this data with additional data, such as the item itself.
notifyCancel() => void	Dispatches an event notifying listeners that the menu has been closed with no selection made.
saveFocus() => void	Stores the currently focused element on the document, for restoring with restoreFocus.
restoreFocus() => void	Restores the previously saved focus state, by making the previously focused element the active focus again.
isFocused() => boolean	Returns a boolean value indicating whether the root element of the simple menu is focused.
focus() => void	Focuses the root element of the simple menu.
getFocusedItemIndex() => number	Returns the index of the currently focused menu item (-1 if none).
focusItemAtIndex(index: number) => void	Focuses the menu item with the provided index.
isRtl() => boolean	Returns boolean indicating whether the current environment is RTL.
setTransformOrigin(value: string) => void	Sets the transform origin for the menu element.
setPosition(position: { top: string, right: string, bottom: string, left: string }) => void	Sets the position of the menu element.