Menu
A menu is a user-interface component that presents a group of selectable options, commands, or destinations.
A Pythonic Adventure: From Python basics to a working web app
A menu is a presented list of products or options that a customer can choose from.
- How it is used
- Builds customer-facing choices for a coffee-shop ordering flow and repeats that flow for multiple customers.
- How deep it goes
- Works through list creation, loop printing, input conversion, index adjustment, and a function-based main-menu skeleton.
- Examples
- Uses drinks, flavors, and toppings menus, a list-index TypeError, and a confirm-or-cancel ordering loop.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch by printing numbered product menus, retrieving selections, and looping through customer confirmations.
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WordPress Power Toolkit: Harness AI to build next-level websites
A menu is a navigational list of links or options that provides access to sections or functions of a website.
- How it is used
- Provides the primary navigation system for reaching a website’s main sections and functions.
- How deep it goes
- Explains menu hierarchy, brevity, alternatives, setup, and link checking without detailing implementation code.
- Examples
- Uses fishing-site categories, grouped submenu topics, a recipe-practice menu, and a contemporary page-layout diagram.
- What you can do after
- Apply it by planning, simplifying, organizing, managing, and checking a website’s navigation menu.
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.NET MAUI in Action
A menu is a user-interface component that presents a list of commands or destinations for selection.
- How it is used
- Supports desktop users by exposing application features through a standard menu bar when a button-heavy layout would be crowded.
- How deep it goes
- Defines menu hierarchy and action wiring through XAML, but defers detailed platform-specific menu behavior.
- Examples
- Uses a ReportPage Help menu containing an About item bound to ShowAboutPageCommand.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure a .NET MAUI page with desktop menus and connect items to commands or Clicked event handlers.
Related concepts
- finite-state machineused by · A finite-state machine is a computational model with a finite set of states and defined transitions that govern changes of state in response to inputs, events, or conditions.
- menu bar items collectionused by · The MenuBarItems collection is a .NET MAUI page property containing the top-level menus displayed in a desktop menu bar.
- menu itemhas part · A menu item is an individual selectable entry within a user-interface menu representing an option, action, or destination.
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