electron/docs/api/menu-item.md

MenuItem

Add items to native application menus and context menus.

See menu for examples.

Class: MenuItem

Create a new MenuItem with the following method:

new MenuItem(options)

• options Object
  • click Function - Will be called with click(menuItem, browserWindow) when the menu item is clicked
  • role String - Define the action of the menu item; when specified the click property will be ignored
  • type String - Can be normal, separator, submenu, checkbox or radio
  • label String
  • sublabel String
  • accelerator Accelerator
  • icon NativeImage
  • enabled Boolean - If false, the menu item will be greyed out and unclickable.
  • visible Boolean - If false, the menu item will be entirely hidden.
  • checked Boolean - Should only be specified for checkbox or radio type menu items.
  • submenu Menu - Should be specified for submenu type menu items. If submenu is specified, the type: 'submenu' can be omitted. If the value is not a Menu then it will be automatically converted to one using Menu.buildFromTemplate.
  • id String - Unique within a single menu. If defined then it can be used as a reference to this item by the position attribute.
  • position String - This field allows fine-grained definition of the specific location within a given menu.

It is best to specify role for any menu item that matches a standard role, rather than trying to manually implement the behavior in a click function. The built-in role behavior will give the best native experience.

The role property can have following values:

• undo
• redo
• cut
• copy
• paste
• pasteandmatchstyle
• selectall
• delete
• minimize - Minimize current window
• close - Close current window

On OS X role can also have following additional values:

• about - Map to the orderFrontStandardAboutPanel action
• hide - Map to the hide action
• hideothers - Map to the hideOtherApplications action
• unhide - Map to the unhideAllApplications action
• front - Map to the arrangeInFront action
• window - The submenu is a "Window" menu
• help - The submenu is a "Help" menu
• services - The submenu is a "Services" menu

When specifying role on OS X, label and accelerator are the only options that will affect the MenuItem. All other options will be ignored.

Instance Properties

The following properties (and no others) can be updated on an existing MenuItem:

• enabled Boolean
• visible Boolean
• checked Boolean

Their meanings are as described above.

A checkbox menu item will toggle its checked property on and off when selected. You can add a click function to do additional work.

A radio menu item will turn on its checked property when clicked, and will turn off that property for all adjacent items in the same menu. Again, you can add a click function for additional behavior.