HTML Element: <menuitem>
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The HTML <menuitem> element indicates a
menu item/command that a user can invoke from a popup menu. It is new in HTML 5.
In theory, it can be used for toolbars, context menus, listing form controls
and commands. However, at the time of writing it was not supported by many browsers.
The attributes it can take
(other than HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes)
include:
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Attribute
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Description
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More
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checked
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Specifies that the element
should be pre-selected
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Here
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default
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Default track / command
to be enabled unless user preferences specify otherwise
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Here
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disabled
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Specified element(s) to
be disabled
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Here
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icon
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Icon for a command /
menu item
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Here
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label
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Title / label command
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Here
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radiogroup
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Name of group of
commands when menu item toggled
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Here
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type
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Type of element
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Here
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To create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and
meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above. It
also supports the following additional properties:
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Property
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Description
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command
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Sets / returns the command property of the DOM object
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Here
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The default style
applicable to this element is shown here.
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