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Sunday, January 31, 2021

Kendo Menu With DropDownList Example

This article is an example of the Kendo Menu and DropDownList Component. The framework used is the Kendo UI for jQuery. In this example, we are tasked to create a menu that has a drop down list option.
Here are the requirements:

A search menu.
The menu contains two type of searches. Simple and advance.
The advance search has a type option list.

Here is our solution. You can edit the code below using any text editor but I prefer Visual Studio Code. Make sure you are connected to the Internet because the code pulls the Kendo library from the Telerik CDN. Take note that this is just a demonstration code and you'll need to purchase a license if you are going to use Kendo UI for jQuery for more than just evaluation purposes.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8"/>
    <title>Kendo UI Menu with DropDownList Example</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2020.2.617/styles/kendo.default-v2.min.css"/>

    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://kendo.cdn.telerik.com/2020.2.617/js/kendo.all.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  
  <ul id="menu">
    <li>Search
      <ul>
        <li>
          <div style="display: flex">
            <input placeholder="Simple search" type="text" class="k-textbox">&nbsp;
            <button class="k-primary" title="Execute the search">
              <span class="k-icon k-i-search"></span>
            </button>
          </div>
        </li>
        <li class="k-separator"></li>
        <li>
          <div>
            <input id="searchTypes"></br>
            <div style="display: flex">
              <input placeholder="Advance search" type="text" class="k-textbox">&nbsp;
              <button title="Execute the search">
                <span class="k-icon k-i-search"></span>
              </button>
            </div>
          </div>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </li>
  </ul>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
  $("#menu").kendoMenu({
    animation: false,
  });

  $("#searchTypes").kendoDropDownList({
    dataSource: {
      data: ["Type 1", "Type 2", "Type 3", "Type 4"],
    },
    open: function(e) {
      $("#menu").find("ul.k-group.k-menu-group")
        .css("overflow", "visible");
    }
  });
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

Open the HTML file in a browser and you should see an output similar to the one shown below.