webapp-menu

Quickly create accessible menus for in web apps. Eg. context menu, file menu, edit menu, toolbar. The library handles adding the appropriate aria- attributes and the keyboard and focus interaction.

No framework dependencies. It is written in with vanilla JS and can be used with any framework.

Screenshots & Demo

Live Demo

Toolbar

Popup

Nested Menu

Setup

HTML

Include the Javascript in your HTML as a module import.

<script type="module"  src="https://unpkg.com/webapp-menu@^2/dist/webapp-menu.js"></script>

NPM

npm install --save webapp-menu

Include the file in your code:

import Menu from 'webapp-menu';

Usage

The menu components can be configured using either HTML or JavaScript.

See the storybook examples for more details.

Using HTML

<wam-popup controlledBy="some-button-id">
    <wam-item label="Text Only"></wam-item>
    <wam-item label="Text with Icon">
        <img slot="icon" src="hello.png"></span>
    </wam-item>
</wam-popup>

Using JavaScript

function iconFactory(icon) {
    const img = document.createElement('img');
    img.src = icon;
    return img;
}

const items = [
    {label:'Text Only'}
    {label:'Text with Icon', icon:'hello.png'},
];

const menu = document.createElement('wam-popup');
menu.iconFactory = iconFactory;
menu.items.set(items);
menu.controlledBy = document.getElementById('some-button-id');