Represents a list of interactive options or commands such as a menu of options in a web application. When the `menu` is a pop-up menu, its contents are one or more `menuitem` elements. In the HTML5 Candidate Recommendation, an option in a `menu` is provided by the `command` element, but the more forward looking HTML5.1 draft and the living WHATWG specification have replaced `command` with `menuitem`.

Note

In HTML 4.01, the deprecated menu element indicates a menu list, which consists of one or more list items (li). Menus were intended for a list of short choices, such as a menu of links to other documents.

Usage

Categories:: Flow content; if the type element is in the toolbar state, then palpable content.
Permitted contexts:: Where flow content is expected. If the type=popup, then as the child of a menu element that is in the pop-up state.
Permitted content:: If type=toolbar, flow content or zero or more li elements. If type=popup, zero or more menuitem elements, zero or more hr elements, and zero or more menu elements with type=popup.
Start/end tags:: Required/Required

Attributes

HTML5 Global Attributes

label="text": Not in HTML 4.01. Specifies a label for the menu, which can be displayed in nested menus.
type="popup|toolbar": Not in HTML 4.01. Identifies the kind of menu being declared. popup indicates a pop-up menu or a menu for a button with its type set to menu in a form. toolbar indicates the menu is to be used as a toolbar that can be interacted with immediately. If the type attribute is omitted, the default is merely a list of commands.

Example (HTML5.1 and WHATWG)

<menu type="popup">
   <menuitem onclick="cut()" label="Cut">
   <menuitem onclick="copy()" label="Copy">
   <menuitem onclick="paste()" label="Paste">
   <menuitem onclick="delete()" label="Clear">
</menu>

Note

Usage

Attributes

Example (HTML5.1 and WHATWG)

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