menu – list of commands (CHANGED)

Permitted contents #

Permitted attributes #

global attributes & type & label

ⓘ global attributes

Any attributes permitted globally.

ⓘ type = "toolbar" or "context" NEW #

The kind of menu being declared.

"toolbar": Indicates that the element represents a tool bar.
"context": Indicates that the element represents a context menu.
If the attribute is omitted, the element represents a list of commands that is neither a context menu nor a tool bar.

ⓘ label = string NEW #

The label of the menu.

Additional constraints and admonitions #

The element menu with the attribute type whose value is “toolbar” must not appear as a descendant of the a element.
The element menu with the attribute type whose value is “toolbar” must not appear as a descendant of the button element.
The compact attribute on the menu element is obsolete. Use CSS instead.

Tag omission #

A menu element must have both a start tag and an end tag.

Permitted parent elements #

any element that can contain flow elements

Changes in HTML5 #

Although previous versions of HTML defined the menu element as a generic “single column menu list”, the element has now been given the very specific purpose of representing a list of commands.

DOM interface #

interface HTMLMenuElement : HTMLElement {
           attribute DOMString type;
           attribute DOMString label;
};

HTML: The Markup Language Reference

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