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Enable

methods

Enables or disables an item of a Menu. This can optionally be accomplished on initialization by setting the disabled="disabled" on the desired menu item html element.

enable

Parameters:elementString|Element|jQuery

Target element

enableBoolean

Desired state

Returns:kendo.ui.Menu

Returns the Menu object to support chaining.

<ul id="menu">
    <li>Item 1
        <ul>
            <li>Sub Item 1</li>
            <li>Sub Item 2</li>
            <li>Sub Item 3</li>
        </ul>
    </li>
    <li id="secondItem">Item 2
        <ul>
            <li>Sub Item 1</li>
            <li>Sub Item 2</li>
            <li>Sub Item 3</li>
        </ul>
    </li>
</ul>
<script>
    $("#menu").kendoMenu();
    // get a reference to the menu widget
    var menu = $("#menu").data("kendoMenu");
    // disable the li menu item with the id "secondItem"
    menu.enable("#secondItem", false);
</script>