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Extending the Submenu Functionality

Explore how to extend dropdown menu functionality by dynamically loading submenu items from a server. Learn to refactor hardcoded values into API calls, manipulate the DOM to inject menu content, and handle dynamic data with CSS and JavaScript for a responsive user interface.

Rendering submenu items

The values that’ll come from our server are as follows:

  • The lists that go into each column
  • The image matching the menu item

It’ll take a fair bit of refactoring to go from the hardcoded version we have now to one that’s populated by the server.

First, let’s ...