Joomla! Programmers Documentation

The menu form field type provides a drop down list of the available menus from your Joomla site. If the field has a saved value this is selected when the page is first loaded. If not, the default value (if any) is selected.

• type (mandatory) must be menu.
• name (mandatory) is the unique name of the field.
• label (mandatory) (translatable) is the field html label.
• description (optional) (translatable) is the field description.
• default (optional) is the default menu. Note that this is the name of the menu shown in the Type column on the Menu Manager screen and not the menu ID number.

Implemented by: libraries/src/Form/MenuField.php

Example XML parameter definition¶

<field
        name="mymenu" 
        type="menu" 
        default="mainmenu" 
        label="Select a menu" 
        description="Select a menu"
/>

See also¶

• Menuitem form field type