Creating Submenus

Submenus can appear on menus to provide additional, related commands. Such nested lists are displayed with the menu text followed by an arrow. JDeveloper supports as many levels of submenus as you want to build into your menu.

Organizing your menu structure with submenus can save vertical screen space. However, for optimal design purposes you probably want to use no more than two or three menu levels in your UI design.

When you move a menu off the menu bar into another menu, it becomes a submenu. Similarly, if you move a menu into an existing submenu, it forms another submenu under the submenu.

To create a submenu:

Select the menu item to which you want to add a submenu .
Click in the Menu Editor toolbar or right-click and choose Insert Submenu.
Alternatively, you can create a submenu by selecting the menu item and pressing Ctrl and the right arrow key.
Click the new submenu item and type a name for the nested menu item, or drag an existing menu item into this placeholder.
Press Enter, or Down arrow, to create the next placeholder.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each item you want to create in the submenu.
Press Esc to return to the previous menu level.