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SubmenuButton

A menu button that displays a cascading menu.

Typically used in a MenuBar control.

Inherits: LayoutControl

Properties

Events

Examples#

Live example

Basic Example#

import flet as ft


def main(page: ft.Page):
    page.padding = 0
    page.spacing = 0

    def handle_color_click(e: ft.Event[ft.MenuItemButton]):
        color = e.control.content.value
        background_container.content.value = f"{color} background color"
        background_container.bgcolor = color.lower()
        page.update()

    def handle_alignment_click(e: ft.Event[ft.MenuItemButton]):
        print(
            f"bg_container.alignment: {bg_container.alignment}, bg_container.content: {bg_container.content}"
        )
        background_container.alignment = e.control.data
        print(
            f"e.control.content.value: {e.control.content.value}, e.control.data: {e.control.data}"
        )
        page.update()

    def handle_on_hover(e: ft.Event[ft.MenuItemButton]):
        print(f"{e.control.content.value}.on_hover")

    bg_container = ft.Container(
        expand=True,
        bgcolor=ft.Colors.SURFACE_TINT,
        alignment=ft.Alignment.CENTER,
        content=ft.Text(
            value="Choose a bgcolor from the menu",
            style=ft.TextStyle(size=24, weight=ft.FontWeight.BOLD),
        ),
    )
    menubar = ft.MenuBar(
        expand=True,
        controls=[
            ft.SubmenuButton(
                content=ft.Text("Change Body"),
                controls=[
                    ft.SubmenuButton(
                        content=ft.Text("BG Color"),
                        leading=ft.Icon(ft.Icons.COLORIZE),
                        controls=[
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("Blue"),
                                on_click=handle_color_click,
                                on_hover=handle_on_hover,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.BLUE}
                                ),
                            ),
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("Green"),
                                on_click=handle_color_click,
                                on_hover=handle_on_hover,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.GREEN}
                                ),
                            ),
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("Red"),
                                on_click=handle_color_click,
                                on_hover=handle_on_hover,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.RED}
                                ),
                            ),
                        ],
                    ),
                    ft.SubmenuButton(
                        content=ft.Text("Text alignment"),
                        leading=ft.Icon(ft.Icons.LOCATION_PIN),
                        controls=[
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("bottom_center"),
                                data=ft.Alignment.BOTTOM_CENTER,
                                on_click=handle_alignment_click,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={
                                        ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.GREY_100
                                    }
                                ),
                            ),
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("bottom_left"),
                                data=ft.Alignment.BOTTOM_LEFT,
                                on_click=handle_alignment_click,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={
                                        ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.GREY_100
                                    }
                                ),
                            ),
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("top_center"),
                                data=ft.Alignment.TOP_CENTER,
                                on_click=handle_alignment_click,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={
                                        ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.GREY_100
                                    }
                                ),
                            ),
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("center_left"),
                                data=ft.Alignment.CENTER_LEFT,
                                on_click=handle_alignment_click,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={
                                        ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.GREY_100
                                    }
                                ),
                            ),
                            ft.MenuItemButton(
                                content=ft.Text("center_right"),
                                data=ft.Alignment.CENTER_RIGHT,
                                on_click=handle_alignment_click,
                                style=ft.ButtonStyle(
                                    bgcolor={
                                        ft.ControlState.HOVERED: ft.Colors.GREY_100
                                    }
                                ),
                            ),
                        ],
                    ),
                ],
            )
        ],
    )

    page.add(
        ft.Row(controls=[menubar]),
        background_container := ft.Container(
            expand=True,
            bgcolor=ft.Colors.SURFACE_TINT,
            alignment=ft.Alignment.CENTER,
            content=ft.Text(
                value="Choose a bgcolor from the menu",
                style=ft.TextStyle(size=24, weight=ft.FontWeight.BOLD),
            ),
        ),
    )


ft.run(main)

basic

Properties#

alignment_offset #

alignment_offset: OffsetValue | None = None

The offset of the menu relative to the alignment origin determined by MenuStyle.alignment on the style attribute.

clip_behavior #

clip_behavior: ClipBehavior = HARD_EDGE

Whether to clip the content of this control or not.

content #

content: StrOrControl | None = None

The child control to be displayed in the middle portion of this button.

Typically this is the button's label, using a Text control.

controls #

controls: list[Control] = field(default_factory=list)

A list of controls that appear in the menu when it is opened.

Typically either MenuItemButton or SubMenuButton controls.

If this list is empty, then the button for this menu item will be disabled.

leading #

leading: Control | None = None

An optional control to display before the content.

Typically an Icon control.

menu_style #

menu_style: MenuStyle | None = None

Customizes this menu's appearance.

style #

style: ButtonStyle | None = None

Customizes this button's appearance.

trailing #

trailing: Control | None = None

An optional control to display after the content.

Typically an Icon control.

Events#

on_blur #

on_blur: ControlEventHandler[SubmenuButton] | None = None

Called when this button loses focus.

on_close #

on_close: ControlEventHandler[SubmenuButton] | None = None

Called when the menu is closed.

on_focus #

on_focus: ControlEventHandler[SubmenuButton] | None = None

Called when the button receives focus.

on_hover #

on_hover: ControlEventHandler[SubmenuButton] | None = None

Called when the button is hovered.

on_open #

on_open: ControlEventHandler[SubmenuButton] | None = None

Called when the menu is opened.