Template and Multilevel nesting in JavaScript (ES5) ContextMenu control

17 Mar 2023 / 2 minutes to read

Template

The ContextMenu items can be customized by using the beforeItemRender event. The item render event triggers while rendering each menu item. The event argument will be used to identify the menu item and customize it based on the requirement. In the following sample, the menu item is rendered with keycode for specified action in ContextMenu using the template. Here, the keycode is specified for Save as, View page source, and Inspect in the right side corner of the menu items by adding span element in the beforeItemRender event.

Source

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index.js

index.html

styles.css

ej.base.enableRipple(true);

var menuItems = [
    {
        text: 'Save as...'
    },
    {
        text: 'View page source'
    },
    {
        text: 'Inspect'
    }];
var menuOptions = {
        target: '#target',
        items: menuItems,
        beforeItemRender: beforeItemRender
    };

var menuObj = new ej.navigations.ContextMenu(menuOptions, '#contextmenu');

function beforeItemRender(args) {
    var shortCutSpan = ej.base.createElement('span');
    var text = args.item.text;
    var shortCutText = text === 'Save as...' ? 'Ctrl + S' : (text === 'View page source' ? 'Ctrl + U' : 'Ctrl + Shift + I');
    shortCutSpan.textContent = shortCutText;
    args.element.appendChild(shortCutSpan);
    shortCutSpan.setAttribute('class','shortcut');
}

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no">
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.48/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.48/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.48/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.48/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.48/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.48/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">

    <!--style reference from app-->
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">

    <!--system js reference and configuration-->
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.4.48/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <!--target element-->
        <div id="target">Right click / Touch hold to open the ContextMenu</div>
        <!--element which is going to render-->
        <ul id="contextmenu"></ul>
    </div>



<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

.shortcut {
    float: right;
    font-size: 10px;
    opacity: 0.5;
    padding-left: 50px;
}

#loader {
  color: #008cff;
  height: 40px;
  left: 45%;
  position: absolute;
  top: 45%;
  width: 30%;
}

#container {
  visibility: hidden;
}

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

To create span element, createElement utility function used from ej2-base.

Multilevel nesting

The Multiple level nesting supports in ContextMenu. It can be achieved by mapping the items property inside the parent menuItems. In the below sample, three level nesting of ContextMenu is provided.