Dropdown Menu

A button-triggered menu with typeahead, submenus, roving focus, and collision handling.

Group: Overlays · Import path: @orionshub/lucent/dropdown-menu · Client component — ships a "use client" boundary.

Import

import { DropdownMenu } from '@orionshub/lucent'
import '@orionshub/lucent/styles.css' // once, at your app root

Examples

Actions menu

Actions menu

Show source

export function DropdownMenuBasic() {
  return (
    <DropdownMenu.Root>
      <DropdownMenu.Trigger asChild><Button>Menu</Button></DropdownMenu.Trigger>
      <DropdownMenu.Content>
        <DropdownMenu.Label>Actions</DropdownMenu.Label>
        <DropdownMenu.Item>Edit</DropdownMenu.Item>
        <DropdownMenu.Item>Duplicate</DropdownMenu.Item>
        <DropdownMenu.Separator />
        <DropdownMenu.Item variant="destructive">Delete</DropdownMenu.Item>
      </DropdownMenu.Content>
    </DropdownMenu.Root>
  )
}

Props

DropdownMenuContent

This component forwards native element props. It exposes no additional public props, or its props are documented inline above.

DropdownMenuItem

Prop	Type	Default	Description
variant	"default" | "destructive" | undefined	—

Guidance

One-time CSS import

Import the compiled stylesheet once at your app root: import '@orionshub/lucent/styles.css'. Components ship stable class names and read design tokens from CSS custom properties — there is no style runtime. See CSS Import.

Transparency & solid mode

Every glass surface reads --lucent-glass-opacity (0.60–1.0). Dial it at runtime with setGlassOpacity(), or switch to setContrast('solid') for a fully opaque, high-contrast rendering. See Transparency & Solid Mode.

Portal theming

This component renders through a portal to document.body. Because theme tokens are scoped to :root, portalled content stays themed automatically — do not nest it inside a transformed/backdrop-filter ancestor if you portal it manually. See Portal Theming.

Reduced motion

Animations are CSS-only and disabled under @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce). See Reduced Motion.

RTL

Authored with CSS logical properties — set dir="rtl" on a parent (or the document) and layout mirrors with no JS. Toggle RTL from the glass-controls panel to preview. See RTL Support.

SSR / Next.js

Client component — ships a "use client" boundary. All components are safe to import in a Server Component tree; interactive ones carry their own "use client" boundary. See SSR & Next.js.