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
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 with icon only
menu-4
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-3.html
Menu with icon only (horizontal)
menu-5
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-4.html
Menu with icon only with tooltip
menu-6
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-5.html
Menu with icon only (horizontal) with tooltip
menu-7
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-6.html
Menu sizes
menu-8
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-7.html
Menu with disabled items
menu-9
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-8.html
Menu with icons
menu-10
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-9.html
Menu with icons and badge (responsive)
menu-11
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-10.html
Menu without padding and border radius
menu-12
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-11.html
Menu with title
menu-13
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-12.html
Menu with title as a parent
menu-14
npm install -D tailwindcss@4.2.1 @tailwindcss/cli@4.2.1 daisyui@5.7.47
examples/menu/block-13.html
Submenu
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 with active item
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.