How to Config Magento 2 Menu Item – Magento 2 Mega Menu Tutorial

May 29, 2018

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This tutorial will help you How to Config Magento 2 Menu Item for Magento 2 Store by our Magento 2 Mega Menu Extension.

There are 8 Tabs which need to Config Magento 2 Menu Item:

General Information
Dropdown
Header
Left Block
Main Content
Right Block
Bottom Block
Design

With this configuration, you can set the width of dropdown, position, animation, color, backgroud with image or not, menu types, …
In order to config correctly position of the menu which is displayed well on Frontend Menu. Follow us to check Magento 2 Menu Structure:

Table of Contents

1. Set General Information:

At general information Tab, you should fill all information relate name, type of menu, icon, group or not, dimension, screen width, etc

1.1 Name: Set menu title. It maybe Women, Men, Fashion, etc.
1.2 Link Type: Category Link or Custom Link.

+ Category Link: It allows to add specific category link to menu. You can choose one of Magento 2 Category in your store. View more How to Add Category Link to Menu in Magento 2

+ Custom Link: Allows to enter your custom link, it supports Magento 2 Shortcode: If the link isÂ http://domain.com/contact -> Magento 2 Shortcode isÂ {{store url=â€contactâ€}}Â

1.3 Link Target:

+ Load in a new window
+ Load in the same frame as it was clicked
+ Load in the parent frameset
+ Load in the full body of the window

1.4 Show Icon:Â Enable to “Yes” or not. Upload Icon, hover icon for this item then update icon position

Hover Icon:

Choose Icon Position: Left or Right

Icon CSS Class: Allows to add class CSS for icon to make it more different.

1.5 Caret, Hover Caret: Insert Icon & Hover Icon Caret for Menu

1.6 Disable Dimensions:Â Enter the Width (pixel) want to disable, menu will be hidden when screen width less than the field value.

Bootstrap 3 Media Query Breakpoints:

Large Devices, Wide Screens: 1200px
Medium Devices, Desktops: 992px
Small Devices, Tablets: 768px
Extra Small Devices, Phones: 480px
iPhone Retina: 320px

Status: Enable/Disable Item

2. Config Magento 2 Menu Item Dropdown

2.1 Is Group:Â Is Group

Set Yes/No

There are 2 choices: Yes/No

+ “Yes”: All Sub-menu items will be shown-off in the same level of parent menu without hovering on parent menu.
+ “No”: All Sub-menus are not shown with the same parent menu level. When hovering on parent menu, sub-menu Items just appears.

2.2 Width: Set Width for Menu Item Dropdown:

Ex: 400px, 100%

2.3 Show Effects: Set Animation of dropdown effect: It includes 9 groups & 44 effects

2.4 Show Duration (s): Set total time of effect in the second.

2.5 Alignment: There four alignment types for the menu content to appear

+ From left menu: menu dropdown content will appear from the left of menu bar to the right
+ From right menu: menu dropdown content will appear from the right of menu bar to the left
+ From left item: menu dropdown content will appear from the left of menu item
+ From right item: menu dropdown content will appear from the right of menu item

2.6 Background Options: background color, background image, background repeat, background position x, background position Y.

2.7 Background Color:
+ Background Image: Set Image Background for Dropdown Menu

2.8 Insert Image:

+ Background Repeat:
+ Background Position X:
+ Background Position Y:

2.9 Inline CSS: Add custom code CSS for this item. Semi-colon separated.

3. Config Magento 2 Menu Item Header:

Default width is 100%.
There are 2 choices: Enable/Disable
Top HTML: Supports WYSIWYG editor. Magento Widget, etc

4. Config Magento 2 Menu Item Left Block:

Width:Â Set width of your left block
Enable: Yes/No
Top HTML:Â Supports WYSIWYG editor, you can insert HTML code, Video(youtube, ,â€¦), Magento widget,etc

5. Config Magento 2 Menu Item Main Content:

5.1 Enable: Yes/No

5.1 Width: Set the width of main content. (percentage or pixel)

5.3 Main Content Types:Â There are 4 content types:

Child Menu Item: Display menu item in the menu editor section
Dynamic Content Tab: Each item as a tab, the first tab is default active
Sub-Categories: Show all sub-categories by specific category

5.4 Child Menu Column: Insert the number of columns childmenu.

5.5 Content: Supports WYSIWYG editor: insert HTML code, Video(youtube, vimeo,â€¦), Magento widget.

6. Right Block:

Enable: Yes/No
Width: Set Block Width:Â Fx: 100%, 400px.
HTML Content: SupportÂ WYSIWYG editor: insert HTML code, Video(youtube, vimeo,â€¦), Magento widget.