Enable and Disable Menu Items

This topic will show you how to enable and disable menu items. There are several major cases that will serve as examples:

• Disable all menu items

• Disable a static menu item

• Disable a dynamic menu item

Disable all Menu Items

Disabling all menu items can be easily done by just setting the IsEnabled property of the RadMenu parent control to False.

XAML

	<telerik:RadMenu VerticalAlignment="Top" IsEnabled="False">
	</telerik:RadMenu>

This will disable the top-level menu items and they won't be expandable.

Disable a Static Menu Item

To disable a static menu item you just have to set its IsEnabled property to False.

XAML

	<telerik:RadMenuItem Header="Save as ..." IsEnabled="False" />

Note that disabling an item will prevent it from expanding its child items (if any).

Disable a Dynamic Menu Item

Before you continue reading this topic, you might find useful to take a look at the Binding to Dynamic Data topic.

In order to disable a dynamic menu item you have to bind its IsEnabled property to the appropriate boolean property of your data item. To do this you can set the ItemContainerStyle property of RadMenu.

XAML

	<telerik:RadMenu>
	    <telerik:RadMenu.ItemContainerStyle>
			<!-- if you use NoXaml dlls, set the following property on the Style object: BasedOn="{StaticResource RadMenuItemStyle}" -->
	        <Style TargetType="telerik:RadMenuItem">
				<Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="{Binding CanClickItem}" />
	        </Style>
	    </telerik:RadMenu.ItemContainerStyle>
	</telerik:RadMenu>

See Also

• Checkable Items
• Separator Items
• Commands