Enable or disable context menu items in Angular Context menu component

27 Apr 20244 minutes to read

You can enable and disable the menu items using the enableItems method in ContextMenu. To enable menuItems, set the enable property in argument to true and vice-versa.

In the following example, the Display Settings in parent items and Medium icons in sub menu items are disabled.

app.component.ts

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core'
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser'
import { ContextMenuModule } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations'
import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base'



import { Component, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import { ContextMenuComponent, MenuEventArgs, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-navigations';

@Component({
imports: [
        
        ContextMenuModule
    ],


standalone: true,
  selector: 'app-root',
  template: `<div class="e-section-control">
            <!--target element-->
            <div id="target">Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
            <!-- To Render ContextMenu. -->
            <ejs-contextmenu #contextmenu target='#target' [items]='menuItems' (created)='onCreated()' (beforeOpen)='beforeOpen()'></ejs-contextmenu>
            </div>`
})

export class AppComponent {

    @ViewChild('contextmenu')
    public contextmenu?: ContextMenuComponent;

    // ContextMenu items definition
    public menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
    {
        text: 'View',
        items: [
          {
            text: 'Large icons'
          },
          {
            text: 'Medium icons'
          },
          {
            text: 'Small icons'
          }
        ]
    },
    {
        text: 'Sort By'
    },
    {
        text: 'Refresh'
    },
    {
        separator: true
    },
    {
        text: 'New'
    },
    {
        separator: true
    },
    {
        text: 'Display Settings'
    },
    {
        text: 'Personalize'
    }];

    onCreated(): void {
      (this.contextmenu as ContextMenuComponent).enableItems(['Display Settings'], false);
    }

    beforeOpen(): void {
      (this.contextmenu as ContextMenuComponent).enableItems(['Medium icons'], false);
    }
}

main.ts

import { bootstrapApplication } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import 'zone.js';
bootstrapApplication(AppComponent).catch((err) => console.error(err));

To disable sub menu items, use the beforeOpen event.