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dijit.MenuItem

Contents

• dijit.MenuItem
  • A programatically created MenuItem
• Accessibility
  • Keyboard
• Implementation Notes

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These are the line items in a Menu Widget. The display for the MenuItem consists of 3 columns namely Label, Icon and the Accelerator key. Although Menu can display accelerator keys there is no infrastructure currently to actually catch and execute these accelerators. The developer is responsible for the key event handler to support this.

A programatically created MenuItem

<script type="text/javascript">
dojo.require("dijit.MenuBar");
dojo.require("dijit.MenuItem");
var pMenuBar;
function fClickOne() {alert("You clicked on Menu Item #1")};
function fClickTwo() {alert("You clicked on Menu Item #2")};
dojo.addOnLoad(function(){
ExampleMenu = new dijit.Menu({id:"SampleM"});
ExampleMenu.addChild(new dijit.MenuItem({label:"Always Visible Menu", disabled:true}));
ExampleMenu.addChild(new dijit.MenuItem({label:"Item #1", onClick:fClickOne,  accelKey:"Shift+O"}));
ExampleMenu.addChild(new dijit.MenuItem({label:"Item #2", onClick:fClickTwo, disabled:true, accelKey:"Shift+T"}));
ExampleMenu.placeAt("wrapper");
ExampleMenu.startup();
});
</script>

<div id="wrapper"></div>

Creation from markup is more simpler and structured.

<script type="text/javascript">
    dojo.require("dijit.MenuBar");
    dojo.require("dijit.PopupMenuBarItem");
    dojo.require("dijit.Menu");
    dojo.require("dijit.MenuItem");
</script>

<div id="menubar" dojoType="dijit.MenuBar">
    <div dojoType="dijit.PopupMenuBarItem" id="Item Menu">
    <span>Items</span>
        <div dojoType="dijit.Menu" id="fileMenu">
            <div dojoType="dijit.MenuItem" onClick="alert('Item 1')">Item #1</div>
            <div dojoType="dijit.MenuItem" onClick="alert('Item 2')">Item #2</div>
            <div dojoType="dijit.MenuItem" onClick="alert('Item 3')" disabled="true">Item #3</div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Accessibility

Keyboard

Action	Key
Navigate menu items	Top and Down arrow keys
Activate a menu item	Spacebar or enter

Implementation Notes

See dijit.Menu.

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