jQuery UI Menu create Event

Last Updated : 27 Jun, 2022

jQuery UI consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using HTML, CSS, and jQuery. It is great for building UI interfaces for the webpages. The jQuery UI Menu widget creates a menu list that is used for mouse and keyboard interactions.

The jQuery UI Menu creates event triggers when a menu is created.

The menu create event accepts two values that are listed below.

event: It represents the event for the menu item.
ui: It is of an object type value.

Note: The ui object is empty but included for consistency with other events.

Syntax:

Initialize the menu with the create callback.

$( ".selector" ).menu({
  create: function( event, ui ) {}
});

Bind an event listener to the menucreate event.

$( ".selector" ).on( "menucreate", function( event, ui ) {} );

CDN Link: First, add jQuery UI scripts needed for your project.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css”>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js”></script>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example: This example describes the uses of the jQuery UI Menu to create events.

HTML

<!doctype html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="utf-8"> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" href= 
"//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css"> 
    <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js"></script> 
    <script src="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <style> 
        .ui-menu { 
            width: 300px; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1 style="color: green;"> 
        GeeksforGeeks 
    </h1> 
  
    <h3>jQuery UI Menu create Event</h3> 
  
    <ul id="menu"> 
        <li> 
            <div>Programming Languages</div> 
            <ul> 
                <li> 
                    <div>C Programming</div> 
                </li> 
                <li> 
                    <div>C++ Programming</div> 
                </li> 
                <li> 
                    <div>Java Programming</div> 
                </li> 
            </ul> 
        </li> 
        <li> 
            <div>Web Technology</div> 
            <ul> 
                <li> 
                    <div>HTML</div> 
                </li> 
                <li> 
                    <div>CSS</div> 
                </li> 
                <li> 
                    <div>JavaScript</div> 
                </li> 
            </ul> 
        </li> 
        <li> 
            <div>Computer Networks</div> 
        </li> 
        <li> 
            <div>Operating System</div> 
        </li> 
    </ul> 
  
    <script> 
        $("#menu").on('menucreate', function () { 
            alert('Create event Triggered!'); 
        }); 
        
        $("#menu").menu(); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>