Menubar

A horizontal menu bar with multiple menus — such as File, Edit, and View — built on the Base UI Menu primitive.

"use client";

import {
  Menubar,
  MenubarCheckboxItem,
  MenubarContent,
  MenubarItem,
  MenubarMenu,
  MenubarSeparator,
  MenubarShortcut,
  MenubarSub,
  MenubarSubContent,
  MenubarSubTrigger,
  MenubarTrigger,
} from "@/registry/base/ui/menubar";

export default function MenubarDemo() {
  return (
    <Menubar>
      <MenubarMenu>
        <MenubarTrigger>File</MenubarTrigger>
        <MenubarContent>
          <MenubarItem>
            New tab
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘T</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
          <MenubarItem>
            New window
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘N</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
          <MenubarSeparator />
          <MenubarSub>
            <MenubarSubTrigger>Share</MenubarSubTrigger>
            <MenubarSubContent>
              <MenubarItem>Email link</MenubarItem>
              <MenubarItem>Messages</MenubarItem>
            </MenubarSubContent>
          </MenubarSub>
          <MenubarSeparator />
          <MenubarItem>
            Print
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘P</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
        </MenubarContent>
      </MenubarMenu>
      <MenubarMenu>
        <MenubarTrigger>Edit</MenubarTrigger>
        <MenubarContent>
          <MenubarItem>
            Undo
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘Z</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
          <MenubarItem>
            Redo
            <MenubarShortcut>⇧⌘Z</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
        </MenubarContent>
      </MenubarMenu>
      <MenubarMenu>
        <MenubarTrigger>View</MenubarTrigger>
        <MenubarContent>
          <MenubarCheckboxItem defaultChecked>
            Always show bookmarks
          </MenubarCheckboxItem>
          <MenubarCheckboxItem>Always show full URLs</MenubarCheckboxItem>
          <MenubarSeparator />
          <MenubarItem>
            Reload
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘R</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
        </MenubarContent>
      </MenubarMenu>
    </Menubar>
  );
}

Installation

npx shadcn@latest add https://sevenui.dev/r/menubar.json

Usage

"use client";

import {
  Menubar,
  MenubarCheckboxItem,
  MenubarContent,
  MenubarItem,
  MenubarMenu,
  MenubarSeparator,
  MenubarShortcut,
  MenubarSub,
  MenubarSubContent,
  MenubarSubTrigger,
  MenubarTrigger,
} from "@/components/ui/menubar";

export default function MenubarDemo() {
  return (
    <Menubar>
      <MenubarMenu>
        <MenubarTrigger>File</MenubarTrigger>
        <MenubarContent>
          <MenubarItem>
            New tab
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘T</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
          <MenubarItem>
            New window
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘N</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
          <MenubarSeparator />
          <MenubarSub>
            <MenubarSubTrigger>Share</MenubarSubTrigger>
            <MenubarSubContent>
              <MenubarItem>Email link</MenubarItem>
              <MenubarItem>Messages</MenubarItem>
            </MenubarSubContent>
          </MenubarSub>
          <MenubarSeparator />
          <MenubarItem>
            Print
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘P</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
        </MenubarContent>
      </MenubarMenu>
      <MenubarMenu>
        <MenubarTrigger>Edit</MenubarTrigger>
        <MenubarContent>
          <MenubarItem>
            Undo
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘Z</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
          <MenubarItem>
            Redo
            <MenubarShortcut>⇧⌘Z</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
        </MenubarContent>
      </MenubarMenu>
      <MenubarMenu>
        <MenubarTrigger>View</MenubarTrigger>
        <MenubarContent>
          <MenubarCheckboxItem defaultChecked>
            Always show bookmarks
          </MenubarCheckboxItem>
          <MenubarCheckboxItem>Always show full URLs</MenubarCheckboxItem>
          <MenubarSeparator />
          <MenubarItem>
            Reload
            <MenubarShortcut>⌘R</MenubarShortcut>
          </MenubarItem>
        </MenubarContent>
      </MenubarMenu>
    </Menubar>
  );
}

API reference

Menubar

Extends the Base UI Menubar component — not a .Root: it renders a plain <div role="menubar"> directly, coordinating a row of individual Menu instances.

Prop	Type	Default
`modal`	`boolean`	`true`
`disabled`	`boolean`	`false`
`orientation`	`"horizontal" \| "vertical"`	`"horizontal"`
`loopFocus`	`boolean` — arrow keys wrap	`true`

An ordinary Menu.Root from @base-ui/react/menu — the same primitive Dropdown Menu builds on, so items share the same data attributes, closeOnClick defaults, and checkbox/radio behavior documented there.

MenubarTrigger

The menubar coordinates sibling menus through context: once one menu is open, hovering a different trigger switches the open menu automatically — no openOnHover prop is needed (or read). Open state styles via data-popup-open, pressed state via data-pressed.

MenubarContent

The Positioner only exposes sideOffset and alignOffset — parented to a menubar trigger it automatically defaults to side="bottom" align="start", so there is no side/align prop to pass.

MenubarSub, MenubarSubTrigger, MenubarSubContent, and item parts

Submenus are identical to dropdown-menu’s (SubmenuRoot-based). Item, CheckboxItem, RadioGroup/RadioItem, Label, Separator, and Shortcut mirror their dropdown-menu counterparts.

Usage guidance

A menubar is a persistent, always-visible row of menus — reach for it when modeling an application-style command bar (File/Edit/View…), not as a one-off dropdown. For a single triggered menu use dropdown-menu; for a right-click / long-press menu use context-menu.