Data Binding in Context Menu Control

6 Mar 20233 minutes to read

To bind local data source to the ContextMenu, menu items are populated from data source and mapped to items property.

The below example demonstrates how to bind local data source to the ContextMenu and separator is added using insertAfter method.

CSHTML

<div id="contextmenutarget">Right click/Touch hold to open the ContextMenu </div>
@Html.EJS().ContextMenu("contextmenu").Target("#contextmenutarget").Items((IEnumerable<object>)ViewBag.menuItems).BeforeItemRender("beforeItemRender").Render()

<script>
    function beforeItemRender(args) {
        if (!args.item.text) {
            args.element.classList.add('e-separator');
       }
    }

</script>

<style>

button {
  margin: 20px 0 0 5px;
}

#target {
  border: 1px dashed;
  height: 150px;
  padding: 10px;
  position: relative;
  text-align: justify;
  color: gray;
  user-select: none;
}

</style>

Databind.cs

public IActionResult Index()
        {
            List<object> menuItems = new List<object>();
            menuItems.Add(new
            { 
                id=1,
                text = "View"
            });
            menuItems.Add(new
            {
                id = 2,
                text = "Sort By"
            });
            menuItems.Add(new
            {
                id = 5,
                text = ""
            });
            menuItems.Add(new
            {
                id = 3,
                text = "New"
            });
            menuItems.Add(new
            {
                id = 4,
                text = "Ascending",
                parentId = 2
            });
            ViewBag.menuItems = menuItems;
            return View();
        }