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Menu

Menus display a list of choices on temporary surfaces.

A menu displays a list of choices on a temporary surface. It appears when the user interacts with a button, or other control.

Basic menu

A basic menu opens over the anchor element by default (this option can be changed via props). When close to a screen edge, a basic menu vertically realigns to make sure that all menu items are completely visible.

Choosing an option should immediately ideally commit the option and close the menu.

Disambiguation: In contrast to simple menus, simple dialogs can present additional detail related to the options available for a list item or provide navigational or orthogonal actions related to the primary task. Although they can display the same content, simple menus are preferred over simple dialogs because simple menus are less disruptive to the user's current context.

Icon menu

In desktop viewport, padding is increased to give more space to the menu.

Dense menu

For the menu that has long list and long text, you can use the dense prop to reduce the padding and text size.

Selected menu

If used for item selection, when opened, simple menus places the initial focus on the selected menu item. The currently selected menu item is set using the selected prop (from ListItem). To use a selected menu item without impacting the initial focus, set the variant prop to "menu".

Positioned menu

Because the Menu component uses the Popover component to position itself, you can use the same positioning props to position it. For instance, you can display the menu on top of the anchor:

The Menu component uses the Popover component internally. However, you might want to use a different positioning strategy, or not blocking the scroll. For answering those needs, we expose a MenuList component that you can compose, with Popper in this example.

The primary responsibility of the MenuList component is to handle the focus.

Account menu

Menu content can be mixed with other components like Avatar.

Contact

Profile

Customization

Here is an example of customizing the component. You can learn more about this in the overrides documentation page.

The MenuItem is a wrapper around ListItem with some additional styles. You can use the same list composition features with the MenuItem component:

🎨 If you are looking for inspiration, you can check MUI Treasury's customization examples.

Max height menu

If the height of a menu prevents all menu items from being displayed, the menu can scroll internally.

Limitations

There is a flexbox bug that prevents text-overflow: ellipsis from working in a flexbox layout. You can use the Typography component with noWrap to workaround this issue:

Change transition

Use a different transition.

Context menu

Here is an example of a context menu. (Right click to open.)

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Supplementary projects

For more advanced use cases you might be able to take advantage of:

material-ui-popup-state

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The package material-ui-popup-state that takes care of menu state for you in most cases.

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Unstyled

Use the Base UI Menu for complete ownership of the component's design, with no Material UI or Joy UI styles to override. This unstyled version of the component is the ideal choice for heavy customization with a smaller bundle size.

API

See the documentation below for a complete reference to all of the props and classes available to the components mentioned here.