{"id":12402,"date":"2025-05-27T07:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/?p=12402"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:27:31","slug":"each-menuitem-in-react-contextmenu-list-identical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/react\/each-menuitem-in-react-contextmenu-list-identical","title":{"rendered":"Why is Each MenuItem in the react-contextmenu List Identical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>React ContextMenu<\/h2>\n<p>react-contextmenu is a powerful library for creating customizable right-click context menus in React applications. It supports submenus, keyboard navigation, and event handling, making it a versatile choice for enhancing user interactions.<\/p>\n<h2>Problem: Handling Multiple List Items<\/h2>\n<p>In a dynamic list where multiple items use the same id for both ContextMenuTrigger and ContextMenu, right-clicking on any item always displays the last rendered menu instead of the corresponding one.<\/p>\n<h3>Solution:<\/h3>\n<p>To fix this, each list item should dynamically generate a unique is based on its properties (e.g., index or name). This ensures that each item has its own corresponding context menu, displaying the correct one when right-clicked.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"js\">function ListItem(props) { \r\n  const contextOptions = props.contextOptions.map((option) =&gt; \r\n    &lt;MenuItem \r\n      key={option.label + option.subLabel} \r\n      disabled={option.disabled} \r\n      divider={option.divider}&gt;\r\n        {option.label}&lt;span className=\"context-sublabel\"&gt;{option.subLabel}&lt;\/span&gt;\r\n    &lt;\/MenuItem&gt;  \r\n  );\r\n  return (\r\n    &lt;div&gt;\r\n      &lt;ContextMenuTrigger id={`list-item-context-${props.index}`}&gt;\r\n        &lt;div className={\"list-item-container\" + (props.selected ? \" list-item-selected\" : \"\")}\r\n          onClick={() =&gt; props.onSelection(props.index)} &gt;\r\n          &lt;p className=\"list-item-label\"&gt;{props.name}&lt;\/p&gt;\r\n        &lt;\/div&gt;\r\n      &lt;\/ContextMenuTrigger&gt;\r\n      &lt;ContextMenu id={`list-item-context-${props.index}`}&gt;\r\n        {contextOptions}\r\n      &lt;\/ContextMenu&gt;\r\n    &lt;\/div&gt;\r\n  );\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>By following this approach, each list item has its own dedicated context menu, preventing issues with shared IDs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"qanda-read-box\"><div class=\"bg-light read-more-icon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/24061434\/read-txt.png\" alt=\"Also Read\"><p><\/p><h3>Also Read:<\/h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/blog\/react-micro-frontend\" target=\"_blank\">React Micro Frontend<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>React ContextMenu react-contextmenu is a powerful library for creating customizable right-click context menus in React applications. It supports submenus, keyboard navigation, and event handling, making it a versatile choice for enhancing user interactions. Problem: Handling Multiple List Items In a dynamic list where multiple items use the same id for both ContextMenuTrigger and ContextMenu, right-clicking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-react"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12405,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions\/12405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bacancytechnology.com\/qanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}