Navigation widget
Overview
Magento navigation widget is a customized jQuery UI Menu widget. Magento navigation extends the default functionality with the following:
- Expanding all layers of the menu tree past the second layer.
- Limiting the maximum number of list items contained within the main navigation (overflow items are placed into a secondary navigation level).
- Method for handling the responsive layout of the menu.
The navigation widget source is lib/web/mage/menu.js.
Initialize the navigation widget
For information about how to initialize a widget in a JS component or .phtml template, see the Initialize JavaScript topic.
Options
The navigation widget has the following options:
breakpoint
Width of user’s window in px for which the menu switches between mobile view and desktop view.
Type: Number
Default value: 768
container
Container to track the menu overflow on responsive navigation.
Type: String
Default value: #menu
maxItems
The number of top level navigational items in main menu.
Type: Number
Default value: null
moreText
Set the text for the overflow menu (i.e. more)
Type: String
Default value: more
responsiveAction
The default responsive handler for the navigation widget.
Type: String
Default value: 'wrap'
Accepted values: wrap, onResize, onReload
Methods
setMaxItems()
Moves the list items that are more than the total max item number set by the user option.
setupMoreMenu()
Builds the more overflowing menu by cloning the main menu items.
