Opening and Closing Delays

Updated on Sep 28, 2026

The RadContextMenu allows you to specify a delay for the closing and opening actions of its child items. This means that you make the RadContextMenu wait for a specific amount of time before opening or closing a sub menu. In order to specify these delays you can set the ShowDelay and HideDelay properties. They are of type Duration and have the following format in XAML "0:0:0.00".

Here is an example of a RadContextMenu with a delay before opening a sub menu equal to one second and a delay before closing a sub menu also equal to one second.

Set Opening and Closing Delays

XAML

<telerik:RadMenu VerticalAlignment="Top"
                 ShowDelay="0:0:1"
                 HideDelay="0:0:1">

</telerik:RadMenu>

Keep the Context Menu Open

By default, the RadContextMenu closes when the user clicks a menu item. Set StaysOpen to True when the menu should remain open after an item is selected.

Keep the Context Menu Open

XAML

<telerik:RadContextMenu xmlns:telerik="http://schemas.telerik.com/2008/xaml/presentation"
                        StaysOpen="True" />

See Also

• Setting the Opening Event

• Keyboard Support

• Menu Placement