An accessible dropdown menu for the common dropdown menu button design pattern.
Menu uses roving tabIndex for focus management.
Chakra UI exports 8 components for rendering menus:
Menu: The wrapper component provides context, state, and focus management.MenuList: The wrapper for the menu items. Must be a direct child of Menu.MenuButton: The trigger for the menu list. Must be a direct child of Menu.MenuItem: The trigger that handles menu selection. Must be a direct child of
a MenuList.MenuGroup: A wrapper to group related menu items.MenuDivider: A visual separator for menu items and groups.MenuOptionGroup: A wrapper for checkable menu items (radio and checkbox).MenuItemOption: The checkable menu item, to be used with MenuOptionGroup.To access the internal state of the Menu, use a function as children
(commonly known as a render prop). You'll get access to the internal state
isOpen and method onClose.
When focus is on the MenuButton or within the MenuList and you type a letter
key, a search begins. Focus will move to the first MenuItem that starts with
the letter you typed.
Open the menu, try and type any letter, (say "S") to see the focus movement.
You can add custom menu icons and commands (or hotkeys) for each menu by passing
the command prop.
By default, the Menu component renders all children of MenuList to the DOM,
meaning that invisible menu items are still rendered but are hidden by styles.
If you want to defer rendering of each children of MenuList until that menu is
open, you can use the isLazy prop. This is useful if your Menu needs to be
extra performant, or make network calls on mount that should only happen when
the component is displayed.
To render menus in a portal, import the Portal component and wrap the
MenuList within the Portal.
To group related MenuItems, use the MenuGroup component and pass it a
title for the group name.
You can compose a menu for table headers to help with sorting and filtering
options. Use the MenuOptionGroup and MenuItemOption components.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Enter or Space | When MenuButton receives focus, opens the menu and places focus on the first menu item. |
ArrowDown | When MenuButton receives focus, opens the menu and moves focus to the first menu item. |
ArrowUp | When MenuButton receives focus, opens the menu and moves focus to the last menu item. |
Escape | When the menu is open, closes the menu and sets focus to the MenuButton. |
Tab | no effect |
Home | When the menu is open, moves focus to the first item. |
End | When the menu is open, moves focus to the last item. |
A-Z or a-z | When the menu is open, moves focus to the next menu item with a label that starts with the typed character if such an menu item exists. |
For MenuButton:
role is set to button.aria-haspopup is set to menu.aria-expanded is set to true.aria-controls is set to the id of the MenuList.For MenuList:
role is set to menu.aria-orientation is set to vertical.For MenuItem:
role is set to menuitem.menuitem/menuitenradio/ menuitemcheckbox.| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| arrowPadding | number | The distance of the arrow to its next border (numeric) E.g. arrowPadding = borderRadius * 2 | - |
| arrowShadowColor | string | - | |
| arrowSize | number | - | |
| autoSelect | boolean | If `true`, the first enabled menu item will be selected when the menu opens. | true |
| closeOnBlur | boolean | If `true`, the menu will close when you click outside the menu list | true |
| closeOnSelect | boolean | If `true`, the menu will close when a menu item is clicked | true |
| colorScheme | string | - | |
| defaultIsOpen | boolean | - | |
| fixed | boolean | - | |
| flip | boolean | - | |
| gutter | number | - | |
| id | string | - | |
| isLazy | boolean | Performance 🚀: If `true`, the MenuItem rendering will be deferred until the menu is open. | - |
| isOpen | boolean | - | |
| matchWidth | boolean | - | |
| modifiers | Modifier<string, any>[] | - | |
| offset | [number, number] | - | |
| onClose | (() => void) | - | |
| onOpen | (() => void) | - | |
| placement | "auto" | "bottom" | "left" | "right" | "top" | "auto-start" | "auto-end" | "top-start" | "top-end" | "bottom-start" | "bottom-end" | "right-start" | "right-end" | "left-start" | "left-end" | - | |
| preventOverflow | boolean | - | |
| size | string | - | |
| variant | string | - |
MenuButton composes Box so you can pass all Box props to
change its style.
MenuList composes Box so you can pass all Box props to
change its style.
| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| command | string | Right-aligned label text content, useful for displaying hotkeys. | - |
| icon | React.ReactElement | The icon to render before the menu item's label. | - |
| iconSpacing | SystemProps["mr"] | The spacing between the icon and menu item's label | - |
| isDisabled | boolean | - | |
| isFocusable | boolean | - |
MenuGroup composes Box so you can pass all Box props to
change its style.
| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| defaultValue | string | string[] | - | |
| onChange | ((value: string | string[]) => void) | - | |
| type | "checkbox" | "radio" | - | |
| value | string | string[] | - |
MenuItemOption composes Box so you can pass all box props
in addition to these:
| Name | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| command | string | Right-aligned label text content, useful for displaying hotkeys. | - |
| icon | React.ReactElement | The icon to render before the menu item's label. | - |
| iconSpacing | SystemProps["mr"] | The spacing between the icon and menu item's label | - |
| isChecked | boolean | - | |
| isDisabled | boolean | - | |
| isFocusable | boolean | - | |
| type | "checkbox" | "radio" | - | |
| value | string | - |