HTML <menuitem> Tag

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The HTML <menuitem> tag contains commands/items with the help of which the user can invoke through a popup menu defined with the <menu> tag. This involves context menus, and menus that can be attached to a menu button.

Syntax

The <menuitem> tag comes in pairs. The content is written between the opening (<menuitem>) and closing (</menuitem>) tags. The <menuitem> tag is nested inside the <menu> element.

Example of the HTML <menuitem> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Title of the document</title>
    <style>
      menuitem {
        display: block;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <menu>
      <menuitem>ol – ordered list</menuitem>
      <menuitem>ul – unordered list</menuitem>
      <menuitem>menu – menu</menuitem>
    </menu>
  </body>
</html>

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Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
checked	checked	Defines that the command / menu item must be checked when the page is being loaded (used only for type = "radio" and type = "checkbox").
default	default	Marks command/menu item as a default command.
disabled	disabled	Defines, that the command/menu item must be disabled.
icon	icon	Defines an icon for the menu /command item.
label	text	Defines that the command / menu item will be displayed for the user. The attribute is required.
radiogroup	groupname	Defines the name of grouped commands, which will be toggled when commend/menu item is toggled. Used only for type = "radio".
type	checkbox command radio	Defines the type of command/menu item. The default value is command.

The <menuitem> tag supports the Global Attributes and the Event Attributes.

How to style <menuitem> tag?

Common properties to alter the visual weight/emphasis/size of text in <menuitem> tag:

CSS font-style property sets the style of the font. normal | italic | oblique | initial | inherit.
CSS font-family property specifies a prioritized list of one or more font family names and/or generic family names for the selected element.
CSS font-size property sets the size of the font.
CSS font-weight property defines whether the font should be bold or thick.
CSS text-transform property controls text case and capitalization.
CSS text-decoration property specifies the decoration added to text, and is a shorthand property for text-decoration-line, text-decoration-color, text-decoration-style.

Coloring text in <menuitem> tag:

CSS color property describes the color of the text content and text decorations.
CSS background-color property sets the background color of an element.

Text layout styles for <menuitem> tag:

CSS text-indent property specifies the indentation of the first line in a text block.
CSS text-overflow property specifies how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signalled to the user.
CSS white-space property specifies how white-space inside an element is handled.
CSS word-break property specifies where the lines should be broken.

Other properties worth looking at for <menuitem> tag:

CSS text-shadow property adds shadow to text.
CSS text-align-last property sets the alignment of the last line of the text.
CSS line-height property specifies the height of a line.
CSS letter-spacing property defines the spaces between letters/characters in a text.
CSS word-spacing property sets the spacing between words.