Meny

A three dimensional and space effecient menu

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Meny

A three dimensional and space effecient menu. Meny works best in browsers with support for CSS 3D transforms, although it falls back on 2D animation for older browsers. Supports touch events for mobile devices.

Check out the demo page.

Instructions

1. Download

Add meny.js to your project. The meny.js file is the only thing required, but you could optionally clone the repository if you want to get the default styles.

Alternatively you can load the meny.js file from cdnjs, see https://cdnjs.com/libraries/meny.

2. Markup

Meny requires two HTML elements to work: a menu and the page contents. The class names are not used by the library so choose anything you want.

<body>
  <div class="meny">
    <!-- your menu items -->
  </div>
  <div class="contents">
    <!-- your page contents -->
  </div>
</body>

Some rules, notes and best practices to keep in mind in terms of markup and styling:

The menu and contents should have the same parent element.
The background which appears behind the contents when Meny is open is not added by the library. You need to set your desired background to the parent element. The default style can be found in demo.css.
The arrow which appears when Meny is closed is also not added by the library, if you want it you can easily copy the styles from the demo.css.
The menu container will be automatically resized by the library according to configuration options.
Meny works on scrolling pages as the menu itself is fixed.

3. Initialize

Next you need create an instance of Meny and tell it which HTML elements to use. This should be done after the meny.min.js is included on your page. Example using the HTML above:

var meny = Meny.create({
	// The element that will be animated in from off screen
	menuElement: document.querySelector( '.meny' ),

	// The contents that gets pushed aside while Meny is active
	contentsElement: document.querySelector( '.contents' ),

	// The alignment of the menu (top/right/bottom/left)
	position: 'left',

	// The height of the menu (when using top/bottom position)
	height: 200,

	// The width of the menu (when using left/right position)
	width: 260,

	// The angle at which the contents will rotate to.
	angle: 30,

	// The mouse distance from menu position which can trigger menu to open.
	threshold: 40,

	// Width(in px) of the thin line you see on screen when menu is in closed position.
	overlap: 6,

	// The total time taken by menu animation.
	transitionDuration: '0.5s',

	// Transition style for menu animations
	transitionEasing: 'ease',

	// Gradient overlay for the contents
	gradient: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.20) 0%, rgba(0,0,0,0.65) 100%)',

	// Use mouse movement to automatically open/close
	mouse: true,

	// Use touch swipe events to open/close
	touch: true
});

4. API & Events

A few handy methods API methods are included, you call these on the instance returned by Meny.create (see above).

meny.configure({ mouse: false }); // change settings after initialization

meny.open();

meny.close();

meny.isOpen(); // true/false

meny.destroy(); // revert original DOM state, unbind events

The wrapper element (parent of the menu and contents) is decorated with classes based on its state:

.meny-active
.meny-top
.meny-right
.meny-bottom
.meny-left

Instances of Meny dispatch events to notify you of their state:

var meny = Meny.create( ... ) // see 3. Initialize

meny.addEventListener( 'open', function() {

	// do something on open

} );

meny.addEventListener( 'close', function() {

	// do something on close

} );

meny.addEventListener( 'opened', function() {

	// do something right after meny is opened and transitions finished

} );

meny.addEventListener( 'closed', function() {

	// do something right after meny is closed and transitions finished

} );

History

1.4.0

Adds opened and closed events
Adds destroy API method

1.3.0

Add touch and mouse config options
Fix error with tap to close when meny is on the left
Add configure API method for changing settings at runtime

1.2.0

Improvements to touch interaction
Setting threshold to 0 disables hover/touch-to-open

1.1.0

Instances of Meny now dispatch ‘open’/‘close’ events

1.0.0

2D animation fallback (works in IE8+)

0.9.0

Rewrote the JavaScript
All core styles/transforms are set via JavaScript
Made many options available at initialization
New JavaScript fallback using internal animation method

0.3.0

Fallback mode that doesn’t rely on transforms

0.2.0

Cleaned up CSS
Fix bug where original events for taps on anchors were blocked
It’s now possible to reach the meny via tapping as well as swiping

0.1.0

Initial release

License

MIT licensed