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Change menu items dynamically in React ContextMenu component

18 May 2022 / 2 minutes to read

The items visible in the ContextMenu can be changed dynamically based on the context you open. To achieve this behavior, initialize ContextMenu with all items using items property and then based on the context you open hide/show required items using hideItems/showItems method in beforeOpen event.

In the following example, the datasource for Clipboard div is Cut, Copy, Paste and for the Editor div is Add, Edit, Delete is changed on beforeOpen event using hideItems and showItems method.

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import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { ContextMenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
class App extends React.Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.menuItems = [
            {
                text: 'Cut'
            },
            {
                text: 'Copy'
            },
            {
                text: 'Paste'
            },
            {
                text: 'Add'
            },
            {
                text: 'Edit'
            },
            {
                text: 'Delete'
            }
        ];
        this.beforeOpen = (args) => {
            if (args.event.target.id === 'right') {
                this.cmenuInstance.hideItems(['Cut', 'Copy', 'Paste']);
                this.cmenuInstance.showItems(['Add', 'Edit', 'Delete']);
            }
            else if (args.event.target.id === 'left') {
                this.cmenuInstance.showItems(['Cut', 'Copy', 'Paste']);
                this.cmenuInstance.hideItems(['Add', 'Edit', 'Delete']);
            }
        };
        this.beforeOpen = this.beforeOpen.bind(this);
    }
    render() {
        return (<div className="container">
              <div id="target">
                 <div id='right' className='e-div'>Editor</div>
                 <div id='left' className='e-div'>Clipboard</div>
              </div>
              <ContextMenuComponent id='contextmenu' target='#target' ref={cmenu => this.cmenuInstance = cmenu} items={this.menuItems} beforeOpen={this.beforeOpen} beforeClose={this.beforeClose}/>
           </div>);
    }
}
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React ContextMenu</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.55/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='element'>
        <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>
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#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;
}

#right {
  float: right;
  border: 1px dashed;
  height: 98%;
  width: 48%;
}

#left {
  float: left;
  border: 1px dashed;
  height: 98%;
  width: 48%;
}
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import { enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { BeforeOpenCloseMenuEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-navigations';
import { ContextMenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';

enableRipple(true);

class App extends React.Component {
  public cmenuInstance: ContextMenuComponent;
  public menuItems: MenuItemModel[] = [
    {
        text: 'Cut'
    },
    {
        text: 'Copy'
    },
    {
        text: 'Paste'
    },
    {
        text: 'Add'
    },
    {
        text: 'Edit'
    },
    {
        text: 'Delete'
    }];
  constructor(props: any) {
    super(props);
    this.beforeOpen = this.beforeOpen.bind(this);
  }
  public beforeOpen: any = (args: BeforeOpenCloseMenuEventArgs) => {
      if ((args.event.target as HTMLElement).id === 'right') {
        this.cmenuInstance.hideItems(['Cut', 'Copy', 'Paste']);
        this.cmenuInstance.showItems(['Add', 'Edit', 'Delete']);
      } else if ((args.event.target as HTMLElement).id === 'left') {
        this.cmenuInstance.showItems(['Cut', 'Copy', 'Paste']);
        this.cmenuInstance.hideItems(['Add','Edit','Delete']);
      }
  }

  public render() {
    return (
            <div className="container">
              <div id="target">
                 <div id='right' className='e-div'>Editor</div>
                 <div id='left' className='e-div'>Clipboard</div>
              </div>
              <ContextMenuComponent id='contextmenu' target='#target' ref={cmenu => this.cmenuInstance = cmenu as ContextMenuComponent}
              items={this.menuItems} beforeOpen={this.beforeOpen} beforeClose={this.beforeClose}/>
           </div>
        );
    }
}

ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));
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