ASP.NET MVC ContextMenu Overview
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The Telerik UI ContextMenu HtmlHelper for ASP.NET MVC is a server-side wrapper for the Kendo UI ContextMenu widget.
The ContextMenu displays hierarchical data as a multi-level menu in a popup. It provides rich styling for unordered lists of items, and can be used for both navigation and execution of JavaScript commands.
Basic Usage
The following example demonstrates how to define the ContextMenu.
<div id="target">Click to open</div>
@(Html.Kendo().ContextMenu()
.Name("contextmenu")
.Target("#target")
.ShowOn("click")
.Items(items =>
{
items.Add()
.Text("Furniture") //Add an item with the text "Item1".)
.Items(children =>{
children.Add().Text("Sofas");
children.Add().Text("Chairs");
children.Add()
.Text("Tables")
.Items(i =>{
i.Add().Text("Dinning Tables");
i.Add().Text("Coffee Tables");
})
children.Add().Text("Accessories");
});
items.Add()
.Text("Electronics"); //Add an item with the text "Item2".)
.Items(children =>{
children.Add().Text("TVs");
children.Add().Text("Laptops");
});
})
)
Configuration
The following example demonstrates the basic configuration of the ContextMenu HtmlHelper and how to get the ContextMenu instance.
<div id="target">Click to open</div>
@(Html.Kendo().ContextMenu()
.Name("contextmenu")
.Target("#target")
.ShowOn("click")
.Items(items =>
{
items.Add().Text("Item 1")
.ImageUrl(Url.Content("https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/content/shared/icons/sports/baseball.png"))
.Items(children =>
{
children.Add().Text("Top News");
children.Add().Text("Photo Galleries");
children.Add().Separator(true);
children.Add().Text("Videos Records");
children.Add().Text("Radio Records");
});
items.Add().Text("Item 2")
.ImageUrl(Url.Content("https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/content/shared/icons/sports/golf.png"))
.Items(children =>
{
children.Add().Text("Top News");
children.Add().Text("Photo Galleries");
children.Add().Separator(true);
children.Add().Text("Videos Records");
children.Add().Text("Radio Records");
});
items.Add().Text("Item 3")
.ImageUrl(Url.Content("https://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/content/shared/icons/sports/swimming.png"))
.Items(children =>
{
children.Add().Text("Top News");
children.Add().Text("Photo Galleries");
});
})
.Animation(animation =>
{
animation.Open(fade => fade.Fade(FadeDirection.In));
animation.Open(open => open.Expand(ExpandDirection.Vertical));
})
.HoverDelay(500)
.Direction("left")
.Orientation(ContextMenuOrientation.Horizontal)
.Events(events => events
.Open("onOpen")
)
)
<script type="text/javascript">
function onOpen() {
// The Name() of the ContextMenu is used to get its instance.
var menu = $("#contextmenu").data("kendoContextMenu");
console.log(menu);
}
</script>
Events
You can subscribe to all ContextMenu events.
By Handler Names
The following example demonstrates how to subscribe to events by a handler name.
<div id="target">Click to open</div>
@(Html.Kendo().ContextMenu()
.Name("contextmenu")
.Target("#target")
.ShowOn("click")
.Events(events => events
.Open("openMenu")
.Close("closeMenu")
.Select("onSelect")
)
)
<script>
function openMenu(){
// Handle the open event.
}
function closeMenu(){
// Handle the close event.
}
function onSelect(){
// Handle the select event.
}
</script>
By Template Delegates
The following example demonstrates how to subscribe to events by a template delegate.
<div id="target">Click to open</div>
@(Html.Kendo().ContextMenu()
.Name("contextmenu")
.Target("#target")
.ShowOn("click")
.Events(events => events
.Open(@<text>
function(){
// Handle the open event inline.
}
</text>)
.Close(@<text>
function(){
// Handle the close event inline.
}
</text>)
)
)
By HTML Attributes
The following example demonstrates how to subscribe to the select event of a single ContextMenu item.
<div id="target">Click to open</div>
@(Html.Kendo().ContextMenu()
.Name("contextmenu")
.Target("#target")
.ShowOn("click")
.Items(items =>
{
items.Add().Text("First Item");
items.Add().Text("Second Item").HtmlAttributes(new { @onclick = "alert('select');" });
})
)