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PopupMenuButton

An icon button which displays a menu when clicked.

Examples​

Live example

PopupMenuButton​

import flet as ft

def main(page: ft.Page):
    def check_item_clicked(e):
        e.control.checked = not e.control.checked
        page.update()

    pb = ft.PopupMenuButton(
        items=[
            ft.PopupMenuItem(text="Item 1"),
            ft.PopupMenuItem(icon=ft.icons.POWER_INPUT, text="Check power"),
            ft.PopupMenuItem(
                content=ft.Row(
                    [
                        ft.Icon(ft.icons.HOURGLASS_TOP_OUTLINED),
                        ft.Text("Item with a custom content"),
                    ]
                ),
                on_click=lambda _: print("Button with a custom content clicked!"),
            ),
            ft.PopupMenuItem(),  # divider
            ft.PopupMenuItem(
                text="Checked item", checked=False, on_click=check_item_clicked
            ),
        ]
    )
    page.add(pb)

ft.app(target=main)

PopupMenuButton Properties​

bgcolor​

The menu's background color.

clip_behavior​

The content will be clipped (or not) according to this option. See Container.clip_behavior for possible values.

Default value is ClipBehavior.NONE.

content​

A Control that will be displayed instead of "more" icon.

elevation​

The menu's elevation when opened. Defaults to 8.

enable_feedback​

Whether detected gestures should provide acoustic and/or haptic feedback. On Android, for example, setting this to True produce a click sound and a long-press will produce a short vibration.

Defaults to True.

icon​

If provided, an icon to draw on the button.

icon_color​

The icon's color.

icon_size​

The icon's size.

items​

A collection of PopupMenuItem controls to display in a dropdown menu.

Defines position of the popup menu relative to the button. Value can either be PopupMenuPosition.OVER (default) or PopupMenuPosition.UNDER.

padding​

A collection of PopupMenuItem controls to display in a dropdown menu. Defaults to padding.all(8.0).

See Container.padding for possible values.

shadow_color​

The color used to paint the shadow below the menu.

shape​

The menu's shape. See FloatingActionButton.shape for possible values.

The default shape is a CircleBorder with a radius of 10.0.

splash_radius​

The splash radius.

surface_tint_color​

The color used as an overlay on color to indicate elevation.

PopupMenuButton Events​

on_cancelled​

Called when the user dismisses/cancels the popup menu without selecting an item.

Deprecated (renamed) since version 0.22.0 and will be removed in version 1.0. Use on_cancel instead.

on_cancel​

Called when the user dismisses/cancels the popup menu without selecting an item.

on_open​

Called when the popup menu is shown.

PopupMenuItem Properties​

check​

If set to True or False a menu item draws a checkmark.

content​

A Control representing custom content of this menu item. If specified, then both icon and text properties are ignored.

height​

The minimum height of this menu item. Defaults to 40.

icon​

An icon to draw before the text label of this menu item.

mouse_cursor​

The cursor to be displayed when a mouse pointer enters or is hovering over this control. See MouseCursor for possible values.

padding​

The padding of this menu item. Note that the height value of this menu item may influence the applied padding. For example, If a height greater than the height of the sum of the padding and a content is provided, then the padding's effect will not be visible.

Defaults to padding.symmetric(horizontal=12). See Container.padding for possible values.

text​

The text label of this menu item.

PopupMenuItem Events​

on_click​

Called when a user clicks a this menu item.