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Change sub menu position in JavaScript (ES5) Menu Bar control

17 Mar 2023 / 2 minutes to read

The submenu position can be changed by using the beforeOpen event. Assign the top and left position where you want to open the submenu to the beforeOpen event arguments args.top and args.left respectively.

In the below sample, the sub menu opens above the parent menu item.

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ej.base.enableRipple(true);

// Menu items definition
var menuItems = [
    {
        text: 'File',
        items: [
            { text: 'Open' },
            { text: 'Save' },
            { text: 'Exit' }
        ]
    },
    {
        text: 'Edit',
        items: [
            { text: 'Cut' },
            { text: 'Copy' },
            { text: 'Paste' }
        ]
    },
    {
        text: 'View',
        items: [
            { text: 'Toolbar' },
            { text: 'Sidebar' }
        ]
    },
    {
        text: 'Tools',
        items: [
            { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
            { text: 'Customize' },
            { text: 'Options' }
        ]
    },
    { text: 'Go' },
    { text: 'Help' }
];

// Menu model definitions
var menuOptions = {
    items: menuItems,
    beforeOpen: function(args) {
        // Getting parent menu item element offset
        var relativeOffset = ej.base.closest(args.event.target, '.e-menu-item').getBoundingClientRect();
        // Getting sub menu wrapper element using closest method
        var subMenuEle = ej.base.closest(args.element, '.e-menu-popup');
        subMenuEle.style.display = 'block';
        args.top = (relativeOffset.top - subMenuEle.getBoundingClientRect().height) + pageYOffset;
        args.left = relativeOffset.left + pageXOffset;
        subMenuEle.style.display = '';
    }
};

// Initialize Menu component
new ej.navigations.Menu(menuOptions, '#menu');
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<!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-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">
        <div class="control-section">
            <ul id="menu"></ul>
        </div>
    </div>



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

For custom positioning, set both top and left position in the beforeOpen event.

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