Menu widget

The Magento menu widget is a customized jQuery UI Menu widget. Magento menu extends the default functionality with the following:

• expanding all layers of the menu tree past the second layer
• declaring a responsive menu
• setting hover delay

The Magento menu widget source is lib/web/mage/menu.js.

Initialize the menu widget

For information about how to initialize a widget in a JS component or .phtml template, see the Initialize JavaScript topic.

Options

Menu widget options mostly coincide with the options of the jQuery UI Menu widget, with addition of the following custom ones:

• delay
• showDelay
• hideDelay
• responsive
• expanded
• mediaBreakpoint

delay

Set the delay length of opening submenu.

Type: Number

Default value: 300

showDelay

Set the delay length of showing menu. Used in toggle method of the widget.

Type: Number

Default value: 42

hideDelay

Set the delay length of closing menu. Used in toggle method of the widget.

Type: Number

Default value: 300

responsive

Setting the default responsive handler for the navigation widget.

Type: Boolean.

Default value: false

mediaBreakpoint

Sets the width of user’s window in pixels for which the menu switches between mobile view and desktop view.

Type: String.

Default value: (max-width: 768px)

expanded

Display top level navigational items in mobile menu or all items.

Type: Boolean.

Default value: false

Methods and Events

The Magento menu widget has all default jQuery UI menu widget methods and events, plus a couple more.

Additional available methods

• toggle
• isExpanded

toggle()

Toggles website’s menu opened state.

isExpanded()

Add class for expanded option.

The following methods from jQuery UI menu widget were adjusted in scope of the widget: expand(event) and select(event).

Code Sample

The following example shows how to initialize the widget and pass options during the initialization (declarative notation using the data-mage-init attribute).

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<nav class="navigation" data-action="navigation">
    <ul id="menu" data-mage-init='{"menu":{"responsive":true, "expanded":true, "delay": 200, "position":{"my":"left top","at":"left+10 top+30"}}}'>
        <li class="level0 level-top ui-menu-item">Toys</li>
        <li class="level0 level-top parent ui-menu-item">Electronics
            <ul class="level0 submenu ui-menu ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all">
                <li class="ui-menu-item"><a href="#">Home Entertainment</a></li>
                <li class="ui-menu-item"><a href="#">Routers</a></li>
            </ul>
        </li>
        <li class="level0 level-top ui-menu-item">Music
            <ul class="level0 submenu ui-menu ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all">
                <li class="ui-menu-item">
                    <a href="#">Alternative</a>
                </li>
                <li class="ui-menu-item">
                    <a href="#">Classic</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </li>
    </ul>
</nav>

Result

The result is a menu with the child items, as shown here: