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Menu · daisyUI

Preview
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

Menu

Menu supplies list styling, not a complete ARIA menu state machine. Site navigation may retain ordinary links and tab order; declaring role=menu requires the corresponding arrow-key and focus behavior.

Installation and initialization

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47

This is a native CSS plugin, not a React component import. Build Tailwind 4 with the daisyUI plugin and load the generated stylesheet before copying an example. See the included setup guide; do not override an existing project's React or Tailwind versions blindly.

@import "tailwindcss";
@plugin "daisyui" { themes: light --default, dark --prefersdark; }

Source and executable behavior

Source files preserve the original code fences, including original comments and demo strings. The $$ class prefix placeholder must be resolved for your plugin configuration: without a prefix, $$btn becomes btn. Copy every listed source file for the chosen example, combine HTML/CSS/JS appropriately and implement native events. The preview's reviewed event adapters are not a backend or an automatically installed application runtime.

Complete first example

<ul class="$$menu bg-base-200 $$rounded-box w-56">
  <li><a>Item 1</a></li>
  <li><a>Item 2</a></li>
  <li><a>Item 3</a></li>
</ul>

All runnable examples

menu-1

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-0.html

Responsive: vertical on small screen, horizontal on large screen

menu-2

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-1.html

Paged menu with nested submenus

menu-3

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-2.html

menu-4

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-3.html

menu-5

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-4.html

menu-6

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-5.html

menu-7

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-6.html

menu-8

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-7.html

menu-9

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-8.html

menu-10

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-9.html

menu-11

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-10.html

menu-12

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-11.html

menu-13

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-12.html

menu-14

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-13.html

menu-15

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-14.html

Collapsible submenu

menu-16

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-15.html

Collapsible submenu that works with class names

menu-17

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-16.html

File tree

menu-18

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-17.html

menu-19

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-18.html

Horizontal menu

menu-20

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-19.html

Horizontal submenu

menu-21

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-20.html

Mega menu with submenu (responsive)

menu-22

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-21.html

Collapsible with submenu (responsive)

menu-23

npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
  • examples/menu/block-22.html

Theme, accessibility and verification

Use native data-theme boundaries. Verify keyboard operation, labels, visible focus, disabled/invalid states where applicable, light/dark, mobile and reduced motion. Check your target browser's dialog, popover and CSS feature support. CSS classes do not supply unimplemented JavaScript or business services. Clean up timers and third-party instances; copying a command is not installation success.

Source and license

https://github.com/saadeghi/daisyui/tree/c51f50130ffefb293179e6fce8de7ad3f307e45f

JGuang authors these bilingual practical notes; this is not a claim of translating the complete upstream documentation. Original Markdown, code and CSS remain available in the source viewer. Preserve MIT and separate dependency notices. All native-package notices are included conservatively, including build tools; no build binary or remote demo image is redistributed. Replace remote media with assets you are authorized to use. Commercial templates are outside this integration.