Change sub menu position in React Menu component

30 Jan 20239 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.

import { closest, enableRipple } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { MenuComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);
function App() {
    // Menu items definition
    let menuItems = [
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Open' },
                { text: 'Save' },
                { text: 'Exit' }
            ],
            text: 'File'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Cut' },
                { text: 'Copy' },
                { text: 'Paste' }
            ],
            text: 'Edit'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Toolbar' },
                { text: 'Sidebar' }
            ],
            text: 'View'
        },
        {
            items: [
                { text: 'Spelling & Grammar' },
                { text: 'Customize' },
                { text: 'Options' }
            ],
            text: 'Tools'
        },
        { text: 'Go' },
        { text: 'Help' }
    ];
    function onBeforeOpen(args) {
        // Getting parent menu item element offset
        const relativeOffset = closest(args.event.target, '.e-menu-item').getBoundingClientRect();
        // Getting sub menu wrapper element using closest method
        const subMenuEle = closest(args.element, '.e-menu-wrapper');
        subMenuEle.style.display = 'block';
        args.top = (relativeOffset.top - subMenuEle.getBoundingClientRect().height) + pageYOffset;
        args.left = relativeOffset.left + pageXOffset;
        subMenuEle.style.display = '';
    }
    return (<MenuComponent items={menuItems} beforeOpen={onBeforeOpen}/>);
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
import { closest, enableRipple} from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';
import { BeforeOpenCloseMenuEventArgs, MenuComponent, MenuItemModel } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-navigations';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDom from 'react-dom';
enableRipple(true);

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

    function onBeforeOpen(args: BeforeOpenCloseMenuEventArgs) {
        // Getting parent menu item element offset
        const relativeOffset = closest(args.event.target as Element, '.e-menu-item').getBoundingClientRect();
        // Getting sub menu wrapper element using closest method
        const subMenuEle = closest(args.element, '.e-menu-wrapper') as HTMLElement;
        subMenuEle.style.display = 'block';
        args.top = (relativeOffset.top - subMenuEle.getBoundingClientRect().height) + pageYOffset;
        args.left = relativeOffset.left + pageXOffset;
        subMenuEle.style.display = '';
    }

    return (
        <MenuComponent items={menuItems} beforeOpen={onBeforeOpen}/>
    );
}
export default App;
ReactDom.render(<App />,document.getElementById('element'));

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