# Menu

- Page: https://jiguang132.com/resources/daisyui/docs/menu
- Resource: daisyUI (https://jiguang132.com/resources/daisyui.md)
- All guides: https://jiguang132.com/resources/daisyui/docs.md

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

```bash
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.

```css
@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

```html
<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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

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

- `examples/menu/block-13.html`

### Submenu

`menu-15`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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`

```bash
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

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