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# YUI Library Examples: DataTable Control: Context Menu Integration

# DataTable Control: Context Menu Integration

Right-click on a row to see the ContextMenu integration in action. For more information on using the ContextMenu class please refer to the documentation for the Menu control.

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## Sample Code for this Example

Data:

YAHOO.example.Data = { inventory: [ {SKU:"23-23874", Quantity:43, Item:"Helmet", Description:"Red baseball helmet. Size: Large."}, {SKU:"48-38835", Quantity:84, Item:"Football", Description:"Leather football."}, {SKU:"84-84848", Quantity:31, Item:"Goggles", Description:"Light blue swim goggles"}, {SKU:"84-84843", Quantity:56, Item:"Badminton Set", Description:"Set of 2 badminton rackets, net, and 3 birdies."}, {SKU:"84-39321", Quantity:128, Item:"Tennis Balls", Description:"Canister of 3 tennis balls."}, {SKU:"39-48949", Quantity:55, Item:"Snowboard", Description:""}, {SKU:"99-28128", Quantity:77, Item:"Cleats", Description:"Soccer cleats. Size: 10."}, {SKU:"83-48281", Quantity:65, Item:"Volleyball", Description:""}, {SKU:"89-32811", Quantity:12, Item:"Sweatband", Description:"Blue sweatband. Size: Medium."}, {SKU:"28-22847", Quantity:43, Item:"Golf Set", Description:"Set of 9 golf clubs and bag."}, {SKU:"38-38281", Quantity:1, Item:"Basketball Shorts", Description:"Green basketball shorts. Size: Small."}, {SKU:"82-38333", Quantity:288, Item:"Lip balm", Description:"Lip balm. Flavor: Cherry."}, {SKU:"21-38485", Quantity:177, Item:"Ping Pong Ball", Description:""}, {SKU:"83-38285", Quantity:87, Item:"Hockey Puck", Description:"Glow-in-the-dark hockey puck."} ] }

CSS:

/* No custom CSS. */

Markup:

<div id="myContainer"></div>

JavaScript:

YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, "load", function() { YAHOO.example.ContextMenu = function() { var myColumnDefs = [ {key:"SKU", sortable:true}, {key:"Quantity", sortable:true}, {key:"Item", sortable:true}, {key:"Description"} ]; var myDataSource = new YAHOO.util.DataSource(YAHOO.example.Data.inventory); myDataSource.responseType = YAHOO.util.DataSource.TYPE_JSARRAY; myDataSource.responseSchema = { fields: ["SKU","Quantity","Item","Description"] }; var myDataTable = new YAHOO.widget.DataTable("myContainer", myColumnDefs, myDataSource); var onContextMenuClick = function(p_sType, p_aArgs, p_myDataTable) { var task = p_aArgs[1]; if(task) { // Extract which TR element triggered the context menu var elRow = this.contextEventTarget; elRow = p_myDataTable.getTrEl(elRow); if(elRow) { switch(task.index) { case 0: // Delete row upon confirmation var oRecord = p_myDataTable.getRecord(elRow); if(confirm("Are you sure you want to delete SKU " + oRecord.getData("SKU") + " (" + oRecord.getData("Description") + ")?")) { p_myDataTable.deleteRow(elRow); } } } } }; var myContextMenu = new YAHOO.widget.ContextMenu("mycontextmenu", {trigger:myDataTable.getTbodyEl()}); myContextMenu.addItem("Delete Item"); // Render the ContextMenu instance to the parent container of the DataTable myContextMenu.render("myContainer"); myContextMenu.clickEvent.subscribe(onContextMenuClick, myDataTable); return { oDS: myDataSource, oDT: myDataTable }; }(); });

## Configuration for This Example

You can load the necessary JavaScript and CSS for this example from Yahoo's servers. Click here to load the YUI Dependency Configurator with all of this example's dependencies preconfigured.

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### DataTable Control Examples:

- Basic Example
- Progressive Enhancement
- Custom Cell Formatting
- Conditional row coloring
- Nested Headers
- JSON Data Over XHR
- XML Data Over XHR With POST
- XML Data with XPath
- Textual Data Over XHR
- Polling the DataSource
- Adding, Updating, and Deleting Rows
- Client-side Pagination
- Client-side Sorting
- Server-side Pagination and Sorting for Dynamic Data
- Integrating Browser History Manager with Server-side Pagination and Sorting
- XY-scrolling, Y-scrolling, and X-scrolling
- Row Selection
- Cell Selection
- Inline Cell Editing
- Showing, Hiding, and Reordering Columns.
- Highlighting Cells, Rows, or Columns
- Reorder Rows with Drag and Drop
- Row Expansion
- Context Menu Integration
- Configuring the Paginator (included with examples for Paginator)
- TabView Integration
- Complex Example of Multiple Features
- Client-side Filtering of Local Data
- Filtering of Dynamic Data
- Datatable with Autocomplete
- Skinning Model
- Ratings (included with examples for ProgressBar Control)
- YQLDataSource (included with examples for DataSource Utility)
- Complex Application (included with examples for Layout Manager)

### More DataTable Control Resources:

- User's Guide (external)
- API Documentation
- Cheat Sheet PDF (external)

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