heMenu
A small no-dependency, simple yet effective, multi-level off-canvas menu library.
Browser Compatibility
heMenu runs on IE11+ and all modern browsers.
Overhead
JS: 13.8 KB (5.1 KB gzipped)
CSS: 5 KB (1.2 KB gzipped)
How To Use
Include the library
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="dist/hemenu.min.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="dist/hemenu.min.js"></script>
The default options are
{
menu: '.hemenu-menu',
trigger: null,
title: 'Menu',
selected: 'selected',
theme: 'light',
position: 'left',
}
menu
option provides the nav
element container.
trigger
is the trigger element selector (or the element itself) that opens the menu.
title
option provides the default title.
selected
provides the class name that the menu item is active.
theme
is the theme. The library comes with two themes: light
and dark
.
position
is the off-canvas menu position. It can be left
or right
.
The required HTML markup is as the following:
<div id="menu-wrapper" className="hemenu">
<div class="hemenu-content">
<div class="hemenu-header">You can put any content here, or remove this element.</div>
<div class="hemenu-menu">
<nav id="menu">
<ul>
<li class="selected"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><span>About us</span>
<ul class="">
<li><a href="#about/history">History</a></li>
<li><span>The team</span>
<ul class="">
<li><a href="#about/team/management">Management</a></li>
<li><a href="#about/team/sales">Sales</a></li>
<li class="selected"><a href="#about/team/development">Development</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#about/address">Our address</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
<div class="hemenu-footer">The footer goes here! This element can be removed.</div>
</div>
</div>
hemenu-header
and hemenu-footer
elements are optional. These can be removed.
To initialize the heMenu, following script can be used:
new heMenu( '#menu-wrapper', {
menu: '.hemenu-menu',
trigger: '#your-trigger-element',
title: 'Menu',
selected: 'selected',
theme: 'light',
position: 'left',
} );
data-hemenu
attribute can be used for direct initialization. If data-hemenu
is used, heMenu is initialized according to the given options. The attribute needs to be filled with default options as:
encodeURIComponent( JSON.stringify( {
menu: '.hemenu-menu',
trigger: '#right-trigger',
title: 'Menu',
selected: 'selected',
theme: 'dark',
position: 'right',
} ) )
This is especially useful for React components. Check the demo file for more information.
Build
Clone the repo, run
npm install
followed by
npm run build
The output minified JS file will be at the dist folder.
You can help out by reporting any issues and feature requests.
Credits
The design is inspired from mmenu-light.js.
License
MIT